I don't know why I haven't used sympy before. I think I looked into it around 10 years ago, and I didn't appreciate the potential at the time. From playing around with it today, it's a capable symbolic math library. The documentation is rich as well. I really like it!
https://www.sympy.org/en/index.html

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Adventures in Symbolic Algebra with Model Context Protocol

https://www.stephendiehl.com/posts/computer_algebra_mcp/

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Does anyone know an R package for symbolic math besides Ryacas?

Yacas fails to solve even simple equations that Maxima and Sympy solve without issues. And Yacas itself doesn't seem well maintained.

I like the Idea of Ryacas that one can convert solutions to R expressions and evaluate them.

And combining symbolic math with R code in Rmarkdown would also be great.

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I told my PChem (Quantum) class that it is perfectly fine for them to use online integrators like WolframAlpha . Many looked surprised and I was surprised about them being surprised. It's 2023, we don't use log tables etc. From a chemistry perspective calculating a complicated integral with paper&pencil seems like wasted time. Identifying integrals of odd fcts etc is a different story. How do you feel about this?

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