On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 5:09 AM, David Kirkby<drkir...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 2009/7/24 Minh Nguyen <nguyenmi...@gmail.com>: > >> The former head of school (the school that was running the course) was >> well aware of limitations of mathematics software systems (or computer >> algebra system, if you like). But I cannot recall that the course >> lecturer talked about downsides of proprietary systems or even maths >> software. I *did not* attend any of the lectures. > > I can't recall this issue ever being pointed out to me at uni. > > I never mentioned it to students when I run a short course on Mathematica. > > Perhaps the next time a book is written on Sage, this point should be > made more. The best argument I can think of to substantiate my claim > of Mathematica not being used much in industry is the lack of jobs > requiring Mathematica skills. IMHO, that's a pretty convincing > argument for not getting sucked into using it.
I intend to write a book aimed at undergrads on Sage based on the worksheets and experiences I had teaching this course: http://wiki.wstein.org/09/480b Your discussion of Mathematica and its drawbacks is very informative. William > > BTW, some time back I started to write a comparison of using Sage vs > Mathematica. I never got around to finishing it, but read it here if > you wish. > > http://www.g8wrb.org/tmp/sage_ideas/compare/Mathematica/ > > > Dave > > > > -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
