Discovery of a Sage

OK, that should really read 'Discovery of the Sage'. Anyway, just to avoid any possible confusion (and more likely, shocks), let me explicitly state that I haven't entered the realm of mumbo jumbo spirituality, yet [Update: forgot to add ;-)]. What I am talking about is Sage. To scrap the website a little, it is 'a free open source mathematics software system licensed under the GPL', which 'combines the power of many open source packages into a common Python-based interface'. I went through some of the documentation and it really appears to have a lot under its hood. I mean, it has NumPy and SciPy and SymPy too. (here is the full list component list. And a little disclaimer, I have heard about but never seriously delved into either of the last three links). That I plan to do now (it is getting installed as I write this). To use the oft quoted phrase, 'I am really excited', and will keep you posted how it goes.

Enjoy!