Section: New Results

Python and Julia computer algebra packages

Participant : Fredrik Johansson.

F. Johansson together with C. Fieker, W. Hart and T. Hofmann of TU Kaiserslautern have developed Nemo and Hecke, two packages for computer algebra and algebraic number theory using the Julia programming language. The paper [17] describing Nemo and Hecke has been published in the proceedings of ISSAC, the main international computer algebra conference.

The paper [15] describing the SymPy package for computer algebra in Python has been published. SymPy is a highly collaborative international project and F. Johansson is one of the 27 coauthors of this paper. Johansson's main contributions to the software include developing the mpmath package used for arbitrary-precision numerical evaluation. In addition, Johansson has issued the stable version 1.0 release of mpmath.