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

Basic Arithmetic

Build

Calculus

Coercion

Combinatorics

Commutative Algebra

Distribution

Doctest

Documentation

Geometry

Graph Theory

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

Miscellaneous

Modular Forms

• FIXME: summarize #4337
• FIXME: summarize #4357
• FIXME: summarize #5262
• FIXME: summarize #5792

Notebook

Number Theory

• FIXME: summarize #5250

Numerical

Packages

P-adics

• FIXME: summarize #5105

Quadratic Forms

Symbolics

Topology

User Interface

Website / Wiki