Sage 4.0 Release Tour

Sage 4.0 was released on FIXME. For the official, comprehensive release note, please refer to sage-4.0.txt. A nicely formatted version of this release tour can be found at FIXME. The following points are some of the foci of this release:

Algebra

• FIXME: summarize #5997

Algebraic Geometry

• FIXME: summarize #6010

Basic Arithmetic

Build

Calculus

Coercion

Combinatorics

• FIXME: summarize #5502
• FIXME: summarize #5586

Commutative Algebra

• FIXME: summarize #5576
• FIXME: summarize #5609
• FIXME: summarize #5566

Distribution

Doctest

Documentation

Geometry

Graph Theory

• FIXME: summarize #5913

Graphics

• FIXME: summarize #5249

Group Theory

• FIXME: summarize #5664
• FIXME: summarize #5844

Interfaces

• Viewing Sage objects with a PDF viewer (INSERT CREDIT) -- Implements the option viewer="pdf" for the command view() so that one can invoke this command in the form view(object, viewer="pdf") in order to view object using a PDF viewer. Typical uses of this new optional argument include:

  • You prefer to use a PDF viewer rather than a DVI viewer.
  • You want to view LaTeX snippets which are not displayed well in DVI viewers (e.g. graphics produced using tikzpicture).
• FIXME: summarize #6039

Linear Algebra

• FIXME: summarize #5974
• FIXME: summarize #5557
• FIXME: summarize #5381

Miscellaneous

• FIXME: summarize #6012

Modular Forms

• FIXME: summarize #4337
• FIXME: summarize #4357
• FIXME: summarize #5262
• FIXME: summarize #5792
• FIXME: summarize #5796
• FIXME: summarize #6019
• FIXME: summarize #5924

Notebook

Number Theory

• FIXME: summarize #5250
• FIXME: summarize #6013
• FIXME: summarize #6008
• FIXME: summarize #6004

Numerical

Packages

• FIXME: summarize #4223
• FIXME: summarize #6031
• FIXME: summarize #5934
• FIXME: summarize #1338
• FIXME: summarize #6032
• FIXME: summarize #6024

P-adics

• FIXME: summarize #5105

Quadratic Forms

Symbolics

Topology

• FIXME: summarize #5889

User Interface

Website / Wiki