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Also, given that research into this algorithm has enormous practical value in both mathematics and computer science, it's a shame that a large segment of the effort is being carried out in secret. This is a perfect example - until Mathematica is open-sourced, no one can know whether the existing algorithm is either complete or optimal. > If when I'm buying Mathematica I'm paying for a proper implementation of the risch (integration) algorithm, it will have been money well spent.

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Instead, and so far, Wolfram's strategy has been to design enticing free samplers like Wolfram Alpha as gateways to their expensive offerings. Three, this may not be apparent, but the existence of environments like Sage and sympy are putting tremendous pressure on Wolfram to price their products more reasonably. Two, an open-source environment like sympy attracts technically skilled people intent on improving it, knowing that they're contributing to a tangible kind of progress that's clear to everyone, and then freely copied by like-minded people into different environments, all with the intent to advance human knowledge, rather than make stockholders happy. If that had been true, people would still be arguing about whether the result was valid. This issue pushes people toward sympy/Sage/Jupyter and other similar open environments, even though at the moment they aren't as powerful as the Wolfram environment.įor example, imagine that the four-color map problem (the first significant computer-aided result in mathematics) had been solved by a close-source environment (instead of an open, freely readable source as it was). One, people who publish mathematics academically are reluctant to use a closed-source tool to create their results, because those results can't be examined and verified at their source. > I don't really see sympy and the like surpassing Mathematica. In particular, it depends on the ability to decide whether an expression is equivalent to zero, which in fact is an undecidable problem, and this strictly speaking makes the Risch 'algorithm' a non-algorithm (though it is a proper algorithm when restricted to a ground field where zero testing is effective, such as Q). * Even more fundamentally, the Risch algorithm (and symbolic integration more generally) puts heavy demands on the underlying symbolic computation engine. For improper definite integrals, systems like Mathematica generally try to go via convolutions of Meijer G-functions, using huge lookup tables and simplification heuristics. Even with proper definite integrals, you need to be extremely careful with branch cuts when applying the fundamental theorem of calculus. * It doesn't give you an algorithm for definite integration, except in simple cases. * It doesn't allow computing parametric answers for common parametric families of integrals (this needs to be done using heuristics and lookup tables). You can extend the Risch algorithm to work with such functions, but this is complicated. * It is concerned with elementary functions, but real-world problem often involve non-elementary functions (like Bessel and hypergeometric functions). * Even when it succeeds, it doesn't necessarily give you the simplest possible form of the solution. Besides, the Risch algorithm doesn't solve all symbolic integration problems in practice: None of the implementations fully implement the algebraic case. There is no complete implementation of the Risch algorithm.

With more experience I could give more specific concerns.

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For these projects I could in principal have used SymPy, I know it has enough features, but with how much slower it is, it would be useless (unless I was able to improve my code to compensate). In mathematica I have done some calculations that take days to complete, but they were quite heavy calculations. I would certainly not say that I'm a good programmer, so my code is probably very slow and badly written. The last problem is that these are much slower than mathematica.

But this might also just be a problem of the amount of experience I have with these tools. Still some features are missing that I would need. It has more features than SymPy, for what I do professionally. I never got around to look at the code to see what caused it, probably some simple bug, but that's another reason. This took a few seconds in mathematica, after a few hours in SymPy I had to halt the execution of that line. Most of them are not complete enough to use professionally, but I try to spend some time to learn them since I would prefer to use them when they get more complete - but that's one reason why they are inferior.Īt one point I was using SymPy and I wanted to invert a symbolic matrix, a rather small one but it had some off-diagonal elements.

I have only used some of the modules that are available for SymPy.

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