Mathics VS SymPy

Compare Mathics vs SymPy and see what are their differences.

Mathics

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Mathics

Posts with mentions or reviews of Mathics. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-12.
  • The Story Continues: Announcing Version 14 of Wolfram Language and Mathematica
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Jan 2024
    There's Mathics, a subset of the language implemented in Python, but unfortunately after the main author of that was hired by Wolfram, the project seems to have basically died. Still fun for what it is.

    https://mathics.org/

  • suggestion for final yr project
    1 project | /r/ProgrammingBuddies | 7 Jul 2023
    You could try to write more Mathematica functions into SymPy. In other words, contribute to the Mathics project (https://mathics.org/)
  • History of Lisp Parentheses (2019)
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Feb 2023
  • Why the Wolfram Language Is (Like) Open Source
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Dec 2021
    I'm one of the authors that spent years building SageMath; indeed, the goal of our project is to create a viable free open source alternative to Mathematica (etc.).

    There's an interesting discussion of actual attempts to create open source implementations of the Wolfram Language in Wikipedia under "Implementations" (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfram_Language). The first attempt was 30 years ago by Fateman and he received an official cease-and-desist from Wolfram for his attempts; he did a lot of work on open source Maxima as a result.

    I think right now https://mathics.org/ is the most complete open source Wolfram Language implementation, and it uses Sympy extensively under the hood. Mathics was dead for a while when the main author got hired by Wolfram (see https://github.com/mathics/Mathics/graphs/contributors), but during the last year there has been an enormous amount of new work on Mathics.

SymPy

Posts with mentions or reviews of SymPy. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-09.
  • AutoCodeRover resolves 22% of real-world GitHub in SWE-bench lite
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Apr 2024
    Thank you for your interest. There are some interesting examples in the SWE-bench-lite benchmark which are resolved by AutoCodeRover:

    - From sympy: https://github.com/sympy/sympy/issues/13643. AutoCodeRover's patch for it: https://github.com/nus-apr/auto-code-rover/blob/main/results...

    - Another one from scikit-learn: https://github.com/scikit-learn/scikit-learn/issues/13070. AutoCodeRover's patch (https://github.com/nus-apr/auto-code-rover/blob/main/results...) modified a few lines below (compared to the developer patch) and wrote a different comment.

    There are more examples in the results directory (https://github.com/nus-apr/auto-code-rover/tree/main/results).

  • SymPy: Symbolic Mathematics in Python
    11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Feb 2024
    That's interesting. You should consider yourself lucky to have met Wolfram employees, as they are obviously vastly outnumbered by users of Mathematica.

    I have not met any developers for either of these products but I know that SymPy has a huge list of contributors for a project of its size. See: https://github.com/sympy/sympy/blob/master/AUTHORS

    You may not be hearing about SymPy users because SymPy is not a monolithic product. It is a library. If you know mathematicians big into using Python, they are probably aware of SymPy as it is the main attraction when it comes to symbolic computation in Python.

  • Matrix Cookbook examples using SymPy
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Jan 2024
  • Fast Symbolic Computation for Robotics
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Nov 2023
    https://github.com/sympy/sympy/issues/9479 suggests that multivariate inequalities are still unsolved in SymPy, though it looks like https://github.com/sympy/sympy/pull/21687 was merged in August. This probably isn't yet implemented in C++ in SymForce yet?
  • Solving a simple puzzle using SymPy
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Aug 2023
    bug report opened https://github.com/sympy/sympy/issues/25507
  • Stem Formulas
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Jul 2023
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36463580

    From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36159017 :

    > sympy.utilities.lambdify.lambdify() https://github.com/sympy/sympy/blob/a76b02fcd3a8b7f79b3a88df... :

    >> """Convert a SymPy expression into a function that allows for fast numeric evaluation [with the CPython math module, mpmath, NumPy, SciPy, CuPy, JAX, TensorFlow, SymPy, numexpr,]*

    From https://westurner.github.io/hnlog/#comment-19084622 :

    > "latex2sympy parses LaTeX math expressions and converts it into the equivalent SymPy form" and is now merged into SymPy master and callable with sympy.parsing.latex.parse_latex(). It requires antlr-python-runtime to be installed. https://github.com/augustt198/latex2sympy https://github.com/sympy/sympy/pull/13706

    ENH: 'generate a Jupyter notebook' (nbformat .ipynb JSON) function from this stem formula

  • Vectorization: Introduction
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Jun 2023
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vectorization :

    > Array programming, a style of computer programming where operations are applied to whole arrays instead of individual elements

    > Automatic vectorization, a compiler optimization that transforms loops to vector operations

    > Image tracing, the creation of vector from raster graphics

    > Word embedding, mapping words to vectors, in natural language processing

    > Vectorization (mathematics), a linear transformation which converts a matrix into a column vector

    Vector (disambiguation) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector

    > Vector (mathematics and physics):

    > Row and column vectors, single row or column matrices

    > Vector space

    > Vector field, a vector for each point

    And then there are a number of CS usages of the word vector for 1D arrays.

    Compute kernel: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compute_kernel

    GPGPU > Vectorization, Stream Processing > Compute kernels: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General-purpose_computing_on_g...

    sympy.utilities.lambdify.lambdify() https://github.com/sympy/sympy/blob/a76b02fcd3a8b7f79b3a88df... :

    > """Convert a SymPy expression into a function that allows for fast numeric evaluation [with the CPython math module, mpmath, NumPy, SciPy, CuPy, JAX, TensorFlow, SymPt, numexpr,]

    pyorch lambdify PR, sympytorch: https://github.com/sympy/sympy/pull/20516#issuecomment-78428...

    Sympytorch:

    > Turn SymPy expressions into PyTorch Modules.

    > SymPy floats (optionally) become trainable parameters. SymPy symbols are inputs to the Module.

    sympy2jax https://github.com/MilesCranmer/sympy2jax :

    > Turn SymPy expressions into parametrized, differentiable, vectorizable, JAX functions.

    > All SymPy floats become trainable input parameters. SymPy symbols become columns of a passed matrix.

  • Has anyone solved the prime number problem on SPOJ yet using pure python?
    2 projects | /r/Python | 29 May 2023
    Look at sympy.isprime for a carefully-optimized pure-Python solution (though if gmpy2 is installed, which it usually is, it will use that instead after trying the easiest cases)
  • What can I contribute to SciPy (or other) with my pure math skill? I’m pen and paper mathematician
    5 projects | /r/Python | 17 Apr 2023
  • Quantum Monism Could Save the Soul of Physics
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Oct 2022

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Mathics and SymPy you can also consider the following projects:

history-of-lisp-parens - a history of Lisp's most notorious artifact, parentheses

SciPy - SciPy library main repository

AngouriMath - New open-source cross-platform symbolic algebra library for C# and F#. Can be used for both production and research purposes.

NumPy - The fundamental package for scientific computing with Python.

urbit - An operating function

Pandas - Flexible and powerful data analysis / manipulation library for Python, providing labeled data structures similar to R data.frame objects, statistical functions, and much more

gap - Main development repository for GAP - Groups, Algorithms, Programming, a System for Computational Discrete Algebra

Numba - NumPy aware dynamic Python compiler using LLVM

cl-sdl2 - Common Lisp bindings for SDL2 using C2FFI.

NetworkX - Network Analysis in Python

ti84-forth - A Forth implementation for the TI-84+ calculator.

Ndless - The TI-Nspire calculator extension for native applications