by gill1109 » Wed Jul 17, 2019 8:29 am
I see I could buy the basic Mathematica desktop version for 345 Euro. I guess it is worth it. My main objection is that it is *closed*. Not only is the code not freely available but even many of the algorithms are also secret. This means that before publishing scientific findings obtained with Mathematica one should check that they can be reproduced by an *open* system. My colleagues working in algebraic geometry and/or number theory and/or computer algebra *never* use Mathematica. They are working on fundamental mathematical algorithms and reproducibility of their findings demands that they use open source software.,