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
Algebraic Geometry
Basic Arithmetic
Build
Calculus
Coercion
Combinatorics
Commutative Algebra
Distribution
Doctest
Documentation
Geometry
Graph Theory
Graphics
Group Theory
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).
Linear Algebra
Miscellaneous
Modular Forms
Notebook
Number Theory
Numerical
Packages
P-adics
Quadratic Forms
Symbolics
Topology
User Interface