https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/cs_0503073/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMThttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39538870urn:hackerpapers:mention:cs_0503073:39538870Wed, 28 Feb 2024 15:06:14 GMT<p>Symbolic mathematics is severely underexplored in undergraduate studies, and the little exposure I had was generally tied to proprietary software such as Mathematica and MATLAB. I learned to use it as an imperfect extension of pen-and-paper thinking, and source code for more advanced stuff gets shaky the deeper into abstraction one goes. For example, I work in a field of mathematics/engineering that requires heavy use of tensor calculations. My go-to tool for that is Maxima, however, it has limited and cumbersome packages for it (see [0]). Now for more sophisticated calculations I resort to…</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/cs_0503073/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>cs.SC