Symbolic Mathematics Python?

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Pratik Deoghare picture Pratik Deoghare · Feb 3, 2009 · Viewed 7.7k times · Source

I am extreamly interested in math and programming and planning to start symbolic math project from scratch.

  1. Is this good project idea?

  2. Where to start?

  3. How should one approach this project?

  4. Any good resources?

Thanks in advance.

Answer

f3lix picture f3lix · Feb 3, 2009

  1. It's a good project to practice programming skills. But if you want to create a real library that other people will want to use this is a project you do not want to start allone and from scratch ...

  2. Where to start: Have a look at the solutions that are already out there and think about what it is that you want to do different. How will your project differ from others?

  3. Resource: SymPy is a Python library for symbolic mathematics

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