Thanks, Max. Good idea. I think I have used wxMaxima or Maxima. Maybe Sage is good for people who like Python. Does it have better graphs? It seems that Python is pretty good at graph drawing. Mike On Tue, 25 Jun 2013, Max Shinn wrote: >> I just learned about this software from my mathematician son, and I >> think it looks like a pretty nice, well-developed system for symbolic >> math: > > Have you seen wxMaxima? It's an interface to Maxima, and I strongly > prefer it over Sage. Sage is kind of a pain to set up because it runs > in a web browser. Sage runs Maxima anyway for all of the heavy lifting, > so the performance will be about the same. > > If you're just looking to try it out, you can always use the Sage Online > Notebook (http://www.sagenb.org/) to start. Then you can compare it > with the easy-to-install wxMaxima (in the repos) and see if Sage is > worth the install. :) > > -Max