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Sage 4.0 Release Tour

Sage 4.0 was released on FIXME. For the official, comprehensive release note, please refer to sage-4.0.txt. A nicely formatted version of this release tour can be found at FIXME. The following points are some of the foci of this release:

Algebra

Algebraic Geometry

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Basic Arithmetic

Build

Calculus

Coercion

Combinatorics

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Commutative Algebra

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Distribution

Doctest

Documentation

Geometry

Graph Theory

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Graphics

Group Theory

Interfaces

  • Viewing Sage objects with a PDF viewer (INSERT CREDIT) -- Implements the option viewer="pdf" for the command view() so that one can invoke this command in the form view(object, viewer="pdf") in order to view object using a PDF viewer. Typical uses of this new optional argument include:

    • You prefer to use a PDF viewer rather than a DVI viewer.
    • You want to view LaTeX snippets which are not displayed well in DVI viewers (e.g. graphics produced using tikzpicture).

Linear Algebra

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Miscellaneous

Modular Forms

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Notebook

Number Theory

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Numerical

Packages

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P-adics

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Quadratic Forms

Symbolics

Topology

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User Interface

Website / Wiki

ReleaseTours/sage-4.0 (last edited 2009-12-26 14:59:17 by Minh Nguyen)