Not a mathematician but last year I needed to do some serious (for me) math at short notice (api provider for some complex calcs dropped us in it) and sagemath with ipython notebook saved me as I could convert all the formulas into python and then inspect and graph the output to give me an idea of what was going on, if I&#x27;d have had that at school I think I&#x27;d have been way better at math the ability to &#x27;play&#x27; with formulae is incredibly powerful.