mathics in jupyter notebook

[Henri Girard]

Hi

I am new and I am trying mathics in ipynb but after installing it the two ways (git or pip) it always fails ?

I am on ubuntu 18.03

any help ?

Henri

[George]

Try it on a google computer.

https://colab.research.google.com

New Python 3 Notebook, put

!pip install mathics

in a code cell and type shift-enter. It installs fine, see?

But, you'll soon find it's not that useful in a Jupyter notebook because mathics is similar to jupyter - it has a nice user interface in browser. So, I have just been using it remotely on http://www.mathics.net/ . It's useful, like mathematica in browser, without the bloated slowness of Wolfram Alpha.

I personally have given up on mathics. I only really know Mathematica, so I was drawn to it initially. Apparently Python has popular libraries matlibplot, scipy, numpy, mathics which in some ways attempted to imitate MATLAB and Mathematica as a free, open source option. But matlibplot says they now discourage the MATLAB-like stuff and plan to deprecate it entirely. They say over time they realized it's better to use arrays and python-like structures and you can do all your linear algebra computations in a better way. Now I feel like I need to learn Numpy and SciPy directly instead of messing around with these MATLAB/Mathematica emulator layers built from them.

I wish the wonderful visual math notation of Mathematica was more popular but everything cool these days seems to be in Python and stored in colorful ascii on github. It would be such a nice world if Wolfram open sourced and gave away mathematica for free, would spawn a revolution in making computer science more accessible to more visual people, imo.

[Henri Girard]

Thank you but sagemath has all what I need.... I use rarely mathematica just when I have a 30 days licence

I am not sure mathematica is as good as sagemanifolds in its domain ?

Thanks

Henri