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2013-05-09 13:22:09 +0200 | marked best answer | Sage for physicists Congratulations for preferring a free open source software. That's the way to go! I can't answer all your questions, but I can say this:
An example of the use of Python in Physics is at the French CEA. CEA is the main Atomic energy research body in France, see the CEA website and the CEA wikipedia entry. Olivier Tache, a research engineer there, in the LIONS lab of the SIS2M unit, wrote about Using Python for science (pdf). He was in charge of renovating the command-control system for USAXS (Ultra-small-angle X-ray scattering) lab experiments, and based on a study of different command-control systems, he engineered the move to Python and Tango for command-control. The LIONS lab developed PySAXS, an Open Source Python package and GUI for SAXS data treatment, entirely based on Numpy and SciPy. Further reading:
Note: I am not connected to CEA. Olivier Tache was our guest at the December 2012 meeting of the Paris area Sage and Scientific Python user group. He talked about the move to Python of the LIONS lab. |
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2013-05-09 00:47:22 +0200 | commented answer | Sage for physicists Good to know atleast some physicists prefer sage, I haven't met a single physics student yet who uses sage instead of mathematica. Thanks for the link. |
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2013-05-06 19:10:40 +0200 | asked a question | Sage for physicists I am a physics undergrad and thinking of learning a CAS. Though, mathematica is a standard choice, I would prefer a free open source software, because of a fetish, and the fact that I can't use mathematica outside my university. Is Python Sage used by physicists? Does it have the same functionality as mathematica. Could you recommend me an online guide/manual or a book which teaches Sage with an emphasis for physics applications i.e. an equvalent to the A Physicist's guide to Mathematica book? |