SageMath – Open-Source Mathematical Software System
When I was in college, about six or so years ago, I used Sage for my physics classes. At some point I stopped using it because it didn&#x27;t really stand up to Mathematica, which we got for free. My professor said, funnily enough, &quot;sage has been taken over by mathematicians!&quot; talking about how it has a lot of support for math uses but not as much for things like solving ODEs that is more of use for physicists and engineers. It&#x27;s funny now seeing most of the comments here talking about crypto, which I read about in examples for Sage at the time (finite fields) whilst not knowing what it could be used for other than research.<p>These days I&#x27;m a computational scientist, so I end up using numeric tools anyway (numpy is my life). That said, it&#x27;d be great to have access to an open source symbolic tool for the times I need them. How has Sage improved for engineer&#x2F;science types in the last few years?