SageMath – Open-Source Mathematical Software System

Sage is wonderful. It has a huge number of uses but I mostly use it for cryptography. Sage has the best (certainly open source) support I know of for a myriad of things like group theory and elliptic curves. Here's a short example for how easy it is to play around with a tiny elliptic curve: sage: p = 19; p.is_prime() True sage: K = GF(p); K Finite Field of size 19 sage: E = EllipticCurve(K, [5, 9]); E Elliptic…

I'm a huge fan of SAGE! I keep using it to discover new math. I generally play with the associate Sage module of any algebraic structure to get a real feel for what is going on. Some examples of: 1. Grobner basis: http://bollu.github.io/#computing-equivalent-gate-sets-using... 2. Commutators of subgroups: http://bollu.github.io/#5age-code-to-play-around-with-commut... 3. Graph/group theory: https://github.com/bollu/bollu.github.io/blob/2f88c28efc54fb...

From ~3 minutes of browsing the site, it's not clear to me exactly what the project is. It seems like 'just' a distribution of python with lots of the numpy/scipy/sympy ecosystem bundled? There's something about the website that's making it hard for me to digest it. I can't quite put my finger on it, but it feels very dense. I will say that the multiedge graph plot[0] does seem useful. Not useful enough for me personally to go through the…