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