SageMath_in_the_news

Sage in the news, blogs, forums and buzz sites

Broadly construed, this will describe how Sage (the software or the machine sage.math) and blogs impacts mathematicians by listing some of the news items involving Sage. Forum topics mentioning Sage can be interesting to track back how others think about Sage and in which contexts it is mentioned. Also the follow up discussions in blogs and forums may give some further insight how Sage is perceived in the outside world.

• IBM developerWorks: Explore Linux as a scientific computing platform, 2012-08-07.

• "A Sage Experience", Linux Journal 2011-07

• Africa Analysis: The benefits of open source software, 2010-11-05

• 7 programming languages on the rise, 2010-10-25

• Crypto Series: Discrete Logarithm, 2010-02-10

• "Python miscellany: serious mathematics, more comprehensions, and novelties" by Cameron Laird, itworld.com, 2009-12-15

• The math education revolution

• How one Melburnian spent Software Freedom Day

• Sage Rocks!

• University Adds Power and Speed to Mathematics Software with Sun Server Technology

• Sage Math 4.0 released -- A review of Sage 4.0. 2009-06-19

• Stirling numbers -- On the different definitions of Stirling numbers and their implementation in different CAS's. 2009-05-12

• SAGE math 3.4.1 released -- A review of Sage 3.4.1. 2009-04-27

• Talk from BalticGrid 2nd All Hands Meeting in Riga - "We MUST have a universal and comprehensive math software package inside the borders of academics to unify research results and work on the same platform! If this platform could be our UNICORE or gLite-based Grid then SAGE will be the best option for everyone involved in science."

• e2: Mathematica and free software - "What we should be doing is using and generating code by mathematicians for mathematicians. What we should be using and generating is free software. We deserve it, and our art/science, mathematics, deserves it too. " - essay at everything2.com by Jordi G. H., 2007-07-30 (+updates)

• Sage Project: Viable Open Source Alternative to Math Software - artcle at educonnection.org by Lisa DiCarlo, 2009-03-19

• Sage - Open Source Software for Mathematicians - blogpost by Colin McAllister, 2009-01-10

• Sage: Mathematics Software - blogpost at "a blog for technology", 2009-01-06

• Sage: Insight into open source technology, an article in the Autumn 2008 Newsletter of the Department of Mathematics at the University of Washington.

• Sage: an open source mathematics software system - 2008-12-19 Alasdair's musings blog posting.

• Review of Sage 3.0.1 in Linux Format magazine, issue 109, September 2008, page 33. Unfortunately, there is as yet no freely available online version of this review. You must have subscription or view the dead tree version. But here's a blog post on that review.

• Review of Sage at Softpedia

• Translated Romanian Blog/Article about Sage

• What are your chances of hitting a fly with a tennis racquet? Blog / 2008-07-18 / Sage helps solving google gode-jam question!

• http://www.shahuwang.com/?tag=sage A blog about Sage in Chinese

• linux appfinder software list

• macresearch.org: "Plug-and-Play Scientific Python with Sage"

• Stumbleupon collective social bookmarking

• Blog LAB Online: "A free alternative to Matlab, Maple, Mathematica and Magma"

• Wikiversity / School of Mathematics / Software

• Sage covered in "Juergen's Focus on Linux" Blog

• Parallel and cluster computing with MPI4Py (and Sage)

• A blog post about sage with many amusing comments at the bottom

• Plug-and-Play Scientific Python with Sage

• Sage Makes Me Happier Than Seems Reasonable

• Walking Randomly: Interacting with Sage - Part 1 (blog)

• Sage on Reddit yet again (2008-05-13)

• Bye Matlab, hello Python, thanks Sage by Vincent Noel, an atmospheric research scientist in France.

• Sage and Cython: a brief introduction (Open Wetware) by Marshall Hampton

• Sage on Reddit

• Glimpses Of A New (mathematical) World: This article is about a computation (not using Sage) of an L-function, a computation about that L-function (using Sage), and a major new NSF-funded initiative to compute large tables of modular forms and L-functions that William Stein (director of the Sage project) is co-directing, which will have a large impact on Sage development.

• Some Axiom Developers Talking About Sage

• Free and Open Source Math Programs

• Sage: great free mathematics software

• A Portuguese Article about Sage translated into English

• PCLinuxOS Repositories now include Sage Math

• Sage is mentioned in Opinion 85: We Should Continue To Be Ambivalent Towards Ambiguity in Mathematics: It Sure Did Some Good, But It Also Did (and Does) Lots of Harm

• Sage appears in the University of Washington's student newspaper, The Daily.

  • http://thedaily.washington.edu/2008/1/14/sage-insights-open-source-technology/

• Free software saves another group of closed software hostages: mathematicians

  • http://news.northxsouth.com/2008/01/01/free-software-saves-another-group-of-closed-software-hostages-mathematicians/

• There's a new Sage in Mathematics (blog post):

  • http://larryshiller.blogspot.com/2007/12/theres-new-sage-in-mathematics.html

• Matemáticas Libres: A Spanish Blog/Article about Sage:

  • Spanish Version and English Translation (Google)

• Sage is #5 in Layer 8's "Top 10 of 2007" (whatever that is):

  • Slideshow

• Sage, Sustainable Living, and the Developing World

  • http://sustainabledesignupdate.com/?p=462

• Sage in Spanish ("El software libre también puede con las matemáticas"):

  • http://www.publico.es/ciencias/026163/software/libre/matematicas

• Sage in Farsi:

  • http://forum.persianadmins.com/showthread.php?t=4084

• Sage in Spanish:

  • http://andreanaranjo.wordpress.com/2007/12/12/programa-de-analisis-matematico-hecho-en-codigo-abierto-pone-en-jaque-a-programas-comerciales/

• Sage in Japanese (wired Japan):

  • http://wiredvision.jp/blog/compiler/200712/20071211123829.html

• A blog post: Online version of MATLAB/Mathematica/Maple

  • http://sidk.info/2007/11/19/online-version-of-matlabmathematicamaple/

• A Blog post -- Sage: Open source Math software released

  • http://wildaboutmath.com/2007/12/09/sage-open-source-math-software-released/

• Math and Open Source -- Sage and Mathematica

  • http://decodingliberation.blogspot.com/2007/11/math-and-open-source.html

• Sage: open-source mathematics software -- an interesting blog post on Sage:

  • http://godplaysdice.blogspot.com/2007/12/sage-open-source-mathematics-software.html

• Sage in Russia:

  • http://rnd.cnews.ru/math/news/line/index_science.shtml?2007/12/10/278779

    • English Version

• AHN: Free Math Software Provides Powerful Number-Crunching

  • http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7009426590

• ZDNet: Sage - not a piece of cake, but powerful and open, Chris Dawson, Dec 9, 2007.

  • http://education.zdnet.com/?p=1416

• Sage: Open Source Mathematics Software [del.icio.us]

  • http://del.icio.us/url/4e91bfd942059dac1876d2c009c7d022

• Sage in TG Daily: Sage: a free, open-source complex math tool, by Rick C. Hodgin, Dec 7, 2007

  • http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/35187/113/

• Sage in Doctor Dobbs Journal

• WIRED: Sage vs Mathematica is the topic of the Wired magazine blog:

  • Math Geek Software Smackdown: Sage v. Mathematica http://www.webmonkey.com/2007/12/math_geek_software_smackdown_sage_vdot_mathematica/

• Sage is the topic of the UWeek article

  • Free Software Brings Affordability, Transparency To Mathematics Digg It PhysOrg

• Sage is the topic of the slashdot article

  • Open Source 'Sage' Takes Aim at High End Math Software http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/08/1350258

• Sage is mentioned in the slashdot article

  • Open Source Math http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/18/1341232

• Sage is the topic of the Science Daily News article

  • Free Software Brings Affordability, Transparency To Mathematics http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/12/071206145213.htm

• Sage was awarded the Trophees du Libre for scientific software!

  • http://www.tropheesdulibre.org/?lang=en

• Sage is mentioned in the Linux Insider article

  • It's Time to Consider Open Source Software, Part 2 http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/57760.html

• E8 structure was decoded using the machine sage.math

  • Slashdot http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/03/19/117259

• MIT press release http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/e8.html

• AIM webpage collecting links for the various E8 stories various news outlets (CNN, etc) http://aimath.org/E8/newsstories.html

• AMS Notices article by David Vogan The Character Table for E₈ : http://www.ams.org/notices/200709/tx070901122p.pdf

• Georg Muntingh's review of Sage

  • http://georgm.blogspot.com/2007/03/sage-computer-algebra-system.html