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SymPy is the best! In addition to the already-excellent official tutorial https://docs.sympy.org/latest/tutorial/index.html https://docs.sympy.org/latest/tutor

SymPy is the best! In addition to the already-excellent official tutorial https://docs.sympy.org/latest/tutorial/index.html https://docs.sympy.org/latest/tutorial/index.html , I have written a short printable tutorial summary of the functions most useful for students https://minireference.com/static/tutorials/sympy_tutorial.pdf https://minireference.com/static/tutorials/sympy_tutorial.pd... For anyone interested in trying SymPy without installing, there is also the online shell https://live.sympy.org/ https://live.sympy.org/ which works great and allows you to send entire computations as a URL, see for example this comment that links to an important linear algebra calculation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23158095 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23158095

hansvm 6y ago
It's also installed by default in Google's hosted jupyter solution iirc -- colab.google.research.com
- satish-setty 6y ago
  Typo there, it should be colab.research.google.com
  - hansvm 6y ago
    Oh, thanks for that. Too late for me to edit, but hopefully everyone notices your comment here.
khawkins 6y ago
How does it compare to Matlab's symbolic toolbox, aside from not being affordable outside of academia?
- westurner 6y ago
  NumPy for Matlab users: https://numpy.org/doc/stable/user/numpy-for-matlab-users.html https://numpy.org/doc/stable/user/numpy-for-matlab-users.htm... SymPy vs Matlab: https://github.com/sympy/sympy/wiki/SymPy-vs.-Matlab https://github.com/sympy/sympy/wiki/SymPy-vs.-Matlab If you then or later need to do distributed ML, it is advantageous to be working in Python. Dask Distributed, Dask-ML, RAPIDS.ai (CuDF), PyArrow, xeus-cling