Re: [math-fun] becoming a 21st century mathematician

From: "Fred lunnon" <fred.lunnon@gmail.com>

SAGE has some mechanism to permit simultaneous access to a raft of different systems, including MAGMA (if installed), and PARI etc (incorporated in the download). I can't get much of a grip on how effectively this arrangement might work in practice --- has anybody here actually tried it out?

Works good for me. Very convenient for such things as cyclotomic fields and p-adics. A lot of tools for elliptic curves. Combinatorics is good and evolving. Some things in SAGE are better than anywhere else, number_of_partitions, for instance. See http://www.mapleprimes.com/forum/a110375 Alec Mihailovs