As a math student, why should I use Linux?
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As a math student, why should I use Linux?
>>52216569
The irregular symmetries in that picture disturb me.
>>52216569
Because it is better for computational use
if you have to ask, you shouldn't.
>>52216601
"Better" in what sense? Faster? Easier to use?
>>52216616
Performance
>>52216569
Freedom.
You are a person, you have rights. You should retain them.
>>52216616
Easier to setup computational clusters and shit
Easier to code on
Easier to run databases
Easier to adminster
>>52216569
Because after the assravaging proofs and theorems you face in class, Linux will seem like a breeze.
>>52216657
Americans only have the freedom to get shot by a cop
>>52216569
triple integrals
don't listen to them OP linux doesn't even come with a calculator preinstalled you have to download it from their app store
>>52216569
>>52216695
300k starting
>>52216721
Depends on the distro
Also
>implying mathematicians use calculators
>>52216767
u wot m80, of course they use them
>>52216569
who cares what you use you fucking nerd faggot
>>52216721
>App store
>>52216721
Mathematicians are not engineers. The math he does is likely symbolic. If he needs a calculator he can easily get one and many distros come with it pre-installed.
>>52216767
Mathematicians needing calculators, yes, mathemagicians... Calculators aren't prime tool.
>>52216569
Worse battery life, inconsistent UI/UX, worse (if not at all) driver support, shitloads of time spent on configuring it/repairing it with some obscure commands found in a neckbeard forum, less application, less compatibility in general, etc
>>52216783
Okay solve this with a calculator
>>52216816
This OP
Don't use Windows
>>52216836
my calculator won't let me input letters :^(
>>52216836
I hated that textbook.
>>52216665
>She
>Code
>>52216836
They invented them for a reason.
>>52216783
>u wot m80, of course they use them
I've worked with several, and never seen them use a calculator. Admittedly, during that time I never saw anyone use a calculator outside of doing homework, and that was my high school aged niece.
>>52216569
Linix is great, but honestly, you'll be using the box as a word processor. Very little of your mathematics course work will require using a computer for anything. Choose whatever you will be able to work with.
>>52216886
Yes, so engineers can do their baby math
Em... does Latex runs better in Linux? I don't know dude...
Although you can always use sharelatex.com MASTER RACEEE
>>52216569
>>52216816
this OP
also, botnet
>>52216569
> It's not that hard to learn if you use Ubuntu.
> It's nicer to develop with
> You get access to a lot of community made tools.
Tbh though, you are probably fine without it if you are happy with programming on your current OS. If you've got free time give it a go l though.
>>52216926
>implying calculators used by mathematicians are the same as highschool calculators or to graphing machines
Trying to disprove conjectures by hand would take years.
>>52216721
>App store
>App
God damn normies
>>52217110
He's obviously trolling m8
>>52217110
That's what the repos are, you know.
>>52217063
>all math is proof by contradiction through brute force
>>52216673
IT nigger
>>52217132
It's a she
>>52216721
Slackware comes with bc. Better than wangblows memeprosoft gratis calculator 10
>>52217672
There's no such thing as a feminine penis.
>>52216800
>dumb frogposter
>doesn't get it
Why am I not surprised
>>52216569
Because you don't want to pay $$$ into Satya Nadella's Yacht fund.
Isn't that a good enough reason?
I'm not a mathematician, but I casually do some math.
>ready to go programming environment for math puzzles
>math libraries in any language available in a single line
>easily set up a server for neural network training and other long computations
You don't need math
>>52216569
If you're a math student then why are you using a computer? All the greatest mathematicians used nothing but paper or stone tablets.
>>52218423
>ignoring the new frontier of math so you can copy other people
>>52218727
Mandelbrot sets are popmath
>>52216569
Great for coding and python is basically free matlab. Seriously there are some good libraries.
>>52218727
Fractals were discovered on paper.
>>52218767
And Mandelbrot himself is a giant asshole, but the entire field of chaos math benefits from computers.
>>52218862
And proved on the computer.
>>52216582
I thought this was one of those magic eye 3d pictures, but all I see when I squint at it is a huge vagina.
>>52216665
>Easier to code on
Ehhhh not really.
If he's a math student, he's going to be using FORTRAN, which GCC doesn't support. He'd have to get GFortran.
Which he can also get on Windows.
Also there are no good IDEs on Linux. All of the ones with good debugging are Windows/OSX only.
>Easier to run databases
true.
>Easier to administer
Also true, but not really relevant to a math student.
>Easier to setup computational clusters and shit
The biggest argument.
>>52216836
>Implying I couldn't if I wanted to
Any self respecting college student has a calculator with a CAS lib installed.
Any self respecting college student also drops draconian courses where the professor bitches and moans about "muh graphing calculators" and "no cas u fags"
>>52220268
This.
CAS systems are BASED AS FUCK.
>>52218943
>And Mandelbrot himself is a giant asshole
Why is that?
>>52220564
because he demanded acknowledgement on every single paper that had anything to do with chaos math like he was solely responsible.
>>52220582
Didn't knew that. Thanks.
>>OP
I'm not into pure math anymore but there's a free software that can be used to do symbolic calculus.
http://www.sagemath.org/
Sage 's target is to provide an alternative to softwares like Maple (cool but incredibly expensive).
It's still new, but it worth giving it a try.
>>52217727
bc is command line and not for the newly initiated. xcalc will suffice nicely, and is also included by default in slackware.
>>52216836
Holy fuck I understand this shit.
Emacs and maxima
>>52220339
>>52220268
If you're not a math major, just shut the fuck up. You have no idea what you're talking about
>>52216569
Simple: try it, then use it if you feel like it.
You may enjoy easy enviroment set-up for octave or R (single apt-get and everything is there), you may prefer 'real' matlab on windows. You may also fall in love with shell scripting and possibilities that linux holds (for example everything is a file, including higher-level hardware-driver thingies - that may prove useful), but on the other hand you may not need it at all.
>>52221319
But this can be done on widows.
I suppose the good thing for OP is that all the big Math software packages he might be forced to used for a class generally run well on linux. >>52220230
People are still using Fortran apart from maintaining legacy code? In the current year?
>>52221319
I have to try this.
>>52221315
feels good, right?
>>52221487
>le secret memeatics club
>>52220230
>If he's a math student, he's going to be using FORTRAN
u wot m80
There are Fortran compilers for Linux and it's not even the main language anymore. Most math students don't program a lot if at all. The few times I do it is when I use Octave or Mathematica.
>>52223703
Sage comes to mind too. In short the OS is absolutely irrelevant.
no reason. enjoy windows / mathematica
top pleb
>>52220230
>IDE
>>52223613
he has autism, leave him alone.
>>52216836
proofs are dope, linear algebra was fun once it 'clicked'
>>52216836
X=6
>>52220339
Useless high school tier toy. Every mathematician I know will either use Mathematica/ Matlab/ Python / Some computer algebra software.
>>52216582
well, that's because you're a yokel who feels threatened by anybody who is intellectually superior to you because you're retarded, yet self-aware enough to realise that you don't know as much as you should.
to answer your question op, you should run osx, the built in graph utility is a very nice touch.
>>52216665
ah, so tell me about a time you set up a "computational cluster and shit"
and a time when you found linux to be "easier to code on" than any other platform
and a time when it was "easier to run databases" on
and a time when it was "easier to administer"
oh wait a tic... all of these claims are rather vague, and you..why you don't know anything about any of this do you? so why are you pretending to?
>>52227326
wow u r liek rly smrt. how r u not working @ googel?
jk, you're a redpill
>>52216886
the problem is that there are more people who know how to do arithmetic than there are people who can do mathematical logic.
the sad part is that mathematical logic is simpler and more applicable to everyday life problems than arithmetic ever was.
also if you rely on a calculator, you're a dummy.
probably a blue pill.
>>52227451
>>52222903
you're not smart enough. stop pretending
>>52220268
>implying university is a trade school
you're the idiot for choosing to get your education at a research institution which prepares you to carry out research, than going to a trade school since you ostensibly want to be told how to do your job like some fuckup.
>>52216682
Lol wot? Did you put any thought into that response? Was that an attempt at humor? Was it intended to be insult? This post gave me cancerous aids
>>52220268
>>52220339
CAS systems are only helpful when doing babby's first engineering calculus
They are fucking useless for higher math
>>52216569
Freedom
also I think you're referring to GNU/Linux, or as I've taken to calling it recently, GNU+Linux
>>52219031
it's a flickr set from some photographer that aims to replicate the experience of acid
not OP but I saved them all once
>>52228191
Neat. It is somewhat like that.
>>52227727
You either don't know what CAS are about or don't know "higher" math. Symbolic computation is everywhere, even in the "purest" fields (and I'm thinking about Galois cohomology).
>>52228231
Didn't mean to sound that harsh. There are plenty of useful computational aspects even for research purposes. Look them up you might even end up liking computer algebra as much as I do.
>>52228217
yeah, it's the closest replication of it I've found so far (especially the slight overlay of rainbow colours you tend to see on the 'outlines' of things)
>tfw never taken it during the daytime so I've never seen pic related
>>52228231
The CAS calculators referenced in this thread aren't really useful for higher math
>>52216569
If you don't know by now, you probably don't need it.
>>52228391
Walking around during the day and seeing this rainbow glaze on everything while looking at all of the happy people is one of my most memorable experiences.
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