SAGE Demo
This week I checked out a live-online demo of SAGE . Conrad Geiger sent out an invitation to this and I'm glad I took him up on it. What I gathered from this was a close experience to expensive/closed source products like Mathematica, Matlab, etc - yet it is free and open source.
From the SAGE website it explains it a little better than I could:
"Sage can be used to study general and advanced, pure and applied mathematics. This includes a huge range of mathematics, including algebra, calculus, elementary to very advanced number theory, cryptography, numerical computation, commutative algebra, group theory, combinatorics, graph theory, exact linear algebra and much more. It combines various software packages and seamlessly integrates their functionality into a common experience. It is well suited for education, studying and research."
The program was written in python and runs on a web browser which I like, and seems to have a lot of potential. During the demo it was mentioned that SAGE is working on support for both Windows, and Solaris (it already has binaries created for Mac and Linux Distros).
The download size is pretty big about 400 MB, but I'm installing this on my desktop (Ubuntu) and giving it a run.
