Sunday, June 14, 2020

Cadabra Software

Cadabra software is Field theory motivated approach to Computer Algebra Systems (CAS for short). It can be downloaded from https://cadabra science/


There are some very nice tutorials and user notebooks in this site. I installed cadabra on opensuse linux (leap). I could only use their interface cadabra2-gtk. Had issues downloading other interfaces because of incompatibilities of boost library versions Leap is supporting.


cadabra2-gtk launches Cadabra notebook which behaves like Jupyter notebook. There is supposed to be command completion which didn't work for me.



Nice thing about Cadabra is its elegant latex support. Latex is built into commands directly. A sample session is shown below:



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