It eliminated any need for me to use Mathematica. It doesn't have quite the depth of Mathematica when it comes to symbolic math, but I never needed that depth a

It eliminated any need for me to use Mathematica. It doesn't have quite the depth of Mathematica when it comes to symbolic math, but I never needed that depth anyways. It's also much more targeted - it's only comparable to the symbolic math portion of Mathematica. To get a similar experience, you should use sympy in a Jupyter notebook environment, use numerical libraries (numpy, scipy, scikit-learn), and learn some plotting libraries (matplotlib, bokeh, or my favorite, plotnine).