SymPy: symbolic computing in Python

Journal Article · Sun Jan 01 23:00:00 EST 2017 · PeerJ. Computer Science

DOI:https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj-cs.103· OSTI ID:1337798

Meurer, Aaron ^[1]; Smith, Christopher P. ^[2]; Paprocki, Mateusz ^[3]; Čertík, Ondřej ^[4]; Kirpichev, Sergey B. ^[5]; Rocklin, Matthew ^[3]; Kumar, AMiT ^[6]; Ivanov, Sergiu ^[7]; Moore, Jason K. ^[8]; Singh, Sartaj ^[9]; Rathnayake, Thilina ^[10]; Vig, Sean ^[11]; Granger, Brian E. ^[12]; Muller, Richard P. ^[13]; Bonazzi, Francesco ^[14]; Gupta, Harsh ^[15]; Vats, Shivam ^[15]; Johansson, Fredrik ^[16]; Pedregosa, Fabian ^[17]; Curry, Matthew J. ^[18] ; Terrel, Andy R. ^[19]; Roučka, Štěpán ^[20]; Saboo, Ashutosh ^[21]; Fernando, Isuru ^[10]; Kulal, Sumith ^[22]; Cimrman, Robert ^[23]; Scopatz, Anthony ^[1]

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1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, United States
2. Polar Semiconductor, Inc., Bloomington, MN, United States
3. Continuum Analytics, Inc., Austin, TX, United States
4. Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
5. Faculty of Physics, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
6. Department of Applied Mathematics, Delhi Technological University, New Delhi, India
7. Université Paris Est Créteil, Créteil, France
8. Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Davis, CA, United States
9. Mathematical Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India
10. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Moratuwa, Katubedda, Moratuwa, Sri Lanka
11. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States
12. California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA, United States
13. Center for Computing Research, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States
14. Department of Theory and Bio-Systems, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam, Germany
15. Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, West Bengal, India
16. INRIA Bordeaux-Sud-Ouest—LFANT project-team, Talence, France
17. INRIA—SIERRA project-team, Paris, France
18. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States, Center for Quantum Information and Control, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States
19. Fashion Metric, Inc, Austin, TX, United States, NumFOCUS, Austin, TX, United States
20. Department of Surface and Plasma Science, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University in Prague, Praha, Czech Republic
21. Department of Computer Science, Department of Mathematics, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Goa, India
22. Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
23. New Technologies—Research Centre, University of West Bohemia, Plzeň, Czech Republic

SymPy is an open source computer algebra system written in pure Python. It is built with a focus on extensibility and ease of use, through both interactive and programmatic applications. These characteristics have led SymPy to become a popular symbolic library for the scientific Python ecosystem. This paper presents the architecture of SymPy, a description of its features, and a discussion of select submodules. The supplementary material provide additional examples and further outline details of the architecture and features of SymPy.

• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• Grant/Contract Number: AC52-06NA25396; AC04-94AL85000
• OSTI ID: 1337798
• Alternate ID(s): OSTI ID: 1325159; OSTI ID: 1342865
• Journal Information: PeerJ. Computer Science, Journal Name: PeerJ. Computer Science Vol. 3; ISSN 2376-5992
• Publisher: PeerJ Inc.
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English