4 A Python library for symbolic mathematics.
6 http://code.google.com/p/sympy/
8 All people who contributed to SymPy by sending at least a patch or more (in
9 the order of the date of their first contribution):
10 Ondrej Certik <ondrej@certik.cz>
11 Fabian Seoane <fabian@fseoane.net>
12 Jurjen N.E. Bos <jnebos@gmail.com>
13 Mateusz Paprocki <mattpap@gmail.com>
14 Marc-Etienne M.Leveille <protonyc@gmail.com>
15 Brian Jorgensen <brian.jorgensen@gmail.com>
16 Jason Gedge <inferno1386@gmail.com>
17 Robert Schwarz <lethargo@googlemail.com>
18 Pearu Peterson <pearu.peterson@gmail.com>
19 Fredrik Johansson <fredrik.johansson@gmail.com>
20 Chris Wu <chris.wu@gmail.com>
21 Kirill Smelkov <kirr@landau.phys.spbu.ru>
22 Ulrich Hecht <ulrich.hecht@gmail.com>
23 Goutham Lakshminarayan <dl.goutham@gmail.com>
24 David Lawrence <dmlawrence@gmail.com>
25 Jaroslaw Tworek <dev.jrx@gmail.com>
26 David Marek <h4wk.cz@gmail.com>
27 Bernhard R. Link <brlink@debian.org>
28 Andrej Tokarčík <androsis@gmail.com>
29 Or Dvory <gidesa@gmail.com>
30 Saroj Adhikari <adh.saroj@gmail.com>
31 Pauli Virtanen <pav@iki.fi>
32 Robert Kern <robert.kern@gmail.com>
33 James Aspnes <aspnes@cs.yale.edu>
34 Nimish Telang <ntelang@gmail.com>
35 Abderrahim Kitouni <a.kitouni@gmail.com>
36 Pan Peng <pengpanster@gmail.com>
37 Friedrich Hagedorn <friedrich_h@gmx.de>
38 Elrond der Elbenfuerst <elrond+sympy.org@samba-tng.org>
39 Rizgar Mella <rizgar.mella@gmail.com>
40 Felix Kaiser <whatfxkr@gmail.com>
41 Roberto Nobrega <rwnobrega@gmail.com>
42 David Roberts <dvdr18@gmail.com>
43 Sebastian Krämer <basti.kr@gmail.com>
44 Vinzent Steinberg <vinzent.steinberg@gmail.com>
45 Riccardo Gori <goriccardo@gmail.com>
46 Case Van Horsen <casevh@gmail.com>
47 Stepan Roucka <stepan@roucka.eu>
48 Ali Raza Syed <arsyed@gmail.com>
49 Stefano Maggiolo <s.maggiolo@gmail.com>
50 Robert Cimrman <cimrman3@ntc.zcu.cz>
51 Bastian Weber <bastian.weber@gmx-topmail.de>
52 Sebastian Krause <sebastian.krause@gmx.de>
53 Sebastian Kreft <skreft@gmail.com>
55 And many more people helped on the SymPy mailinglist, reported bugs, helped
56 organize SymPy's participation in the Google Summer of Code, the Google Highly
57 Open Participation Contest, wrote and blogged about SymPy...
59 License: New BSD License (see the LICENSE file for details)
60 covers all files in the sympy repository unless stated otherwise.
65 $ hg clone http://hg.sympy.org/sympy/
67 For other options (tarballs, debs, etc.), see the web page of SymPy.
70 1. Documentation and usage
71 --------------------------
75 http://docs.sympy.org/
77 You can generate everything at the above site in your local copy of SymPy by:
81 $ epiphany _build/html/index.html
83 If you don't want to read that, here is a short usage:
85 From this directory, start python and:
86 >>> from sympy import Symbol, cos
89 >>> print e.series(x, 0, 10)
90 1 + (1/2)*x**2 + (5/24)*x**4 + (61/720)*x**6 + (277/8064)*x**8 + O(x**10)
92 SymPy also comes with a console that is a simple wrapper around the
93 classic python console (or ipython when available) that loads the
94 sympy namespace and executes some common commands for you.
100 from this directory if SymPy is not installed or simply
104 if SymPy is installed somewhere in your PATH.
110 to execute tests, run
114 in the current directory. You need to have py.test installed.
117 4. How to install py.test
118 -------------------------
120 If you use Debian, just install the python-codespeak-lib. Otherwise:
122 Execute in your home directory:
124 svn co http://codespeak.net/svn/py/dist py-dist
126 This will create a "py-dist" directory in you home dir. Add this line to
129 eval `python ~/py-dist/py/env.py`
131 Now you can call "py.test" from anywhere.
136 To clean everything (thus getting the same tree as in the svn):
144 SymPy was started by Ondrej Certik in 2005, he wrote some code during the
145 summer, then he wrote some more code during the summer 2006. In February 2007,
146 Fabian Seoane joined the project and helped fixed many things, contributed
147 documentation and made it alive again. 5 students (Mateusz Paprocki, Brian
148 Jorgensen, Jason Gedge, Robert Schwarz and Chris Wu) improved SymPy incredibly
149 during the summer 2007 as part of the Google Summer of Code. Pearu Peterson
150 joined the development during the summer 2007 and he has made SymPy much more
151 competitive by rewriting the core from scratch, that has made it from 10x to
152 100x faster. Jurjen N.E. Bos has contributed pretty printing and other patches.
153 Fredrik Johansson has wrote mpmath and contributed a lot of patches. Kirill
154 Smelkov has joined the development in autumn 2007 and has improved the overall
155 quality of SymPy a lot and is currently one of the most active developers.
161 To cite SymPy in publications use::
163 SymPy Development Team (2008). SymPy: Python library for symbolic mathematics
164 URL http://www.sympy.org.
166 A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is::
169 title = {SymPy: Python library for symbolic mathematics},
170 author = {{SymPy Development Team}},
172 url = {http://www.sympy.org},
175 SymPy is BSD licensed, so you are free to use it whatever you like, be it
176 academic, commercial, creating forks or derivatives, as long as you copy the BSD
177 statement if you redistribute it (see the LICENSE file for details).
178 That said, although not required by the SymPy license, if it is convenient for
179 you, please cite SymPy when using it in your work and also consider
180 contributing all your changes back, so that we can incorporate it and all of us
181 will benefit in the end.