computer algebra packages

Bill Mill bill.mill at gmail.com
Wed Jun 8 13:23:55 EDT 2005


On 6/8/05, Fernando Perez <fperez.net at gmail.com> wrote:
> Rahul wrote:
> 
> >
> > Hi.
> > The reason is simple enough. I plan to do some academic research
> > related to computer algebra for which i need some package which i can
> > call as a library. Since i am not going to use the package
> > myself..(rather my program will)..it will be helpful to have a python
> > package since i wanted to write the thing in python. if none is
> > available then probably i will need to work on an interface to some
> > package written in some other language or work in that language itself.
> 
> I've heard of people writing a Python MathLink interface to Mathematica, which
> essentially turns Mathematica into a Python module.  But I don't have any
> references handy, sorry, and as far as I remember it was done as a private
> contract.  But it's doable.
>

What about http://library.wolfram.com/infocenter/MathSource/585/ ?
Seems to be non-proprietary, or something different, but does it work?
I don't have Mathematica, so I don't know.

Peace
Bill Mill
bill.mill at gmail.com



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