What do you do when you're a high caliber mathematician or a scientist and you want to share your

algorithms and code? Sounds like a job for GitHub, doesn't it? But the problem is often this work

is done on proprietary platforms such as magma, matlab, mathematics, and others. Not only can you not

share your licenses for, say, Matlab, but there are often proprietary separate libraries and

tools for specialized work.

These are expensive products.

One example from my distant past was using the wavelet toolbox on Matlab.

Matlab itself is over $2,000, and the WaveLit library is another $1,000.

So to share my code, you must have both licenses yourself.

This is a problem. Well, if you're William Stein,

you take this problem and you turn it into an opportunity to build an open source competitor

to Matlab and related platforms. This episode is all about SageMath, an open source feature-rich

option for scientists and mathematicians, built by over 500 contributors and consisting of over

500,000 lines of Python and

Cyancode.

This is Talk Python to Me, episode 59, recorded May 10th, 2016.

I'm a developer, developers, developers, developers, developers.

I'm a developer in many senses of the word, because I make these applications, but I also

use these verbs to

make this music.

I constructed line by line, just like when I'm coding another software design.

In both cases, it's about design patterns.

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