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ahnicktoday at 2:11 AM2 repliesview on HN

what do you or others use instead?


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markgalltoday at 2:51 AM

Probably the most general-purpose one is SageMath, which is open-source and basically Python with a ton of sophisticated math stuff built into it. Everything I used to do in Mathematica I now do in sage, and I don't think I'm the only one. Probably field-dependent though.

Of course there is a whole constellation of more specialized things in certain fields, that has come a long way in the last 15 years. So people needing things like that no longer kludge things together in Mathematica.

zozbot234today at 4:15 AM

Maple would be the main proprietary alternative but yes, there's also SageMath.