{"id":521,"date":"2014-08-29T13:05:12","date_gmt":"2014-08-29T17:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/minireference.com\/blog\/?p=521"},"modified":"2014-08-29T13:05:12","modified_gmt":"2014-08-29T17:05:12","slug":"math-makes-you-cry-try-sympy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minireference.com\/blog\/math-makes-you-cry-try-sympy\/","title":{"rendered":"Math makes you cry? Try SymPy!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nThis summer I wrote a short <code>SymPy<\/code> tutorial that illustrates how a computer<br \/>\nalgebra system can help you understand math and physics. Using <code>SymPy<\/code> you can solve all kinds of math problems, painlessly.<br \/>\nCheck it:\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/minireference.com\/static\/tutorials\/sympy_tutorial.pdf\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/minireference.com\/miniref\/lib\/tpl\/miniref\/landings\/images\/sympy_tutorial_thumb.png\" style=\"border-top:1px solid #777; border-left:1px solid #777; -moz-box-shadow: 3px 3px 4px #000; -webkit-box-shadow: 3px 3px 4px #555;box-shadow: 3px 3px 4px #555; margin-bottom:10px;\"><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/minireference.com\/static\/tutorials\/sympy_tutorial.pdf\">Sympy tutorial<\/a> (PDF, 12 pages)\n<\/p>\n<p>\nPrint this out, and try the examples using <a href=\"http:\/\/live.sympy.org\/\">live.sympy.org<\/a>. The topics covered are: high school math, calculus, mechanics, and linear algebra.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSymPy makes all math and physics calculation easy to handle, it can even make them fun! Learn the commands and you&#8217;ll do well on all your homework problems. Best of all, sympy is free and open source software so your learning and your calculations won&#8217;t cost you a dime!\n<\/p>\n<p>\nComments and feedback below, on <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=8243452\">HN<\/a>, on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/noBSguide\/posts\/529410530494209\">fb<\/a>, or via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/minireference\/status\/505405969967640576\">twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This summer I wrote a short SymPy tutorial that illustrates how a computer algebra system can help you understand math and physics. Using SymPy you can solve all kinds of math problems, painlessly. Check it: Sympy tutorial (PDF, 12 pages) Print this out, and try the examples using live.sympy.org. The topics covered are: high school [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-content"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/minireference.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/minireference.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/minireference.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minireference.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minireference.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/minireference.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/minireference.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minireference.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minireference.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}