[sage-devel] Re: Magma, Maple, Mathematica, MATLAB, and SAGE

2007-05-17 Thread Timothy Clemans
I do not see much about the cultural aspect of these systems and I think that the cultural aspects seem very interesting. I would like to know why MATLAB is so popular in engineering and not Mathematica. Also could you tell us about how SAGE is so much better than Mathematica for teaching your ele

[sage-devel] Re: Magma, Maple, Mathematica, MATLAB, and SAGE

2007-05-17 Thread David Harvey
On May 17, 2007, at 10:13 PM, William Stein wrote: > > Hi, > > I wrote slides just now for a culturally and historically > oriented introduction to Magma, Maple, Mathematica, > MATLAB, and SAGE. If you want, please take a look at > them and give me any feedback you might have: > > http://sage