Symbolic algebra software

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Mathematica is a commercial general computing environment for both symbolic and numerical calculations from Wolfram. Compute Canada does not currently support this software on its clusters but as an alternative the SageMath package is available as a module:

[name@server ~]$ module load sagemath

Afterwards you can then run the software interactively, e.g.

[name@server ~]$ sage
┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ SageMath version 8.1, Release Date: 2017-12-07                     │
│ Type "notebook()" for the browser-based notebook interface.        │
│ Type "help()" for help.                                            │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
sage: