[jointpdf]

I’ve dabbled enough with SymPy to recommend it. Jupyter + SymPy (+ the rest of SciPy) gets you a pretty long ways toward one of the M programs. Here’s a book: https://the-eye.eu/public/Books/HumbleBundle/doingmathwithpy...

Opinion: There’d be a lot more people interested in math if it were taught with greater emphasis on visualization, experimentation, and self-verification (i.e. via CAS/programming).

Speaking for myself, it vastly enhances the value of my “pen and paper” and “stare at book” math time (the old fashioned way—also valuable and necessary, but [for me] not sufficient, for deep understanding).

[mlevental]

does sympy really do alegbra (like magma) or just standard linear algebra and polynomial type stuff

[jointpdf]

Not sure what you’re looking for in particular, but SymPy definitely goes beyond the basics. Here’s a list of the modules:

https://docs.sympy.org/latest/modules/index.html