Monday, December 10, 2007

Science Dialy: Free Software Brings Affordability, Transparency To Mathematics

ScienceDaily (2007-12-07) -- Mathematicians are on a mission to replace the costly software used in education and research with a free, open-source version. More than 100 mathematicians around the world are helping to develop the tool.
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ZDNet article: Sage - not a piece of cake

Sage - not a piece of cake, but powerful and open by ZDNet's Christopher Dawson -- Developed at the University of Washington, with contributions from mathematicians worldwide, Sage is a relatively new open-source tool designed to supplant proprietary mathematical analysis programs like Maple, Matlab, and Mathematica. All of these programs are mainstays of most mathematicians’ toolkits, but have recently come under scrutiny because of the black-box nature of their calculations [...]