I think you are all missing the context here. The "Association for Mathematical Research" is a new organization created by various people who got in trouble on woke math twitter. Nobody had heard of it until yesterday. (Their crimes are mostly opposing diversity statements in job applications, or favoring gifted programs.) It looks like a schism with the AMS (which more-or-less publicly takes the opposite view on these things), though they deny it. The impetus for the new group is clearly political. They got a few big names on there, but everybody on the board is already known for holding retrograde political views and I think they all signed one of the dueling petitions about this in the AMS Notices a year or two ago.
This is just a filler page to make it look like they have some content. It's not a serious list of mathematical software. There are good ones of those done elsewhere.
I looked around on the AMS site, and I'm not seeing anything about the AMS opposing gifted education. Would you please provide a link to this?
(To be perfectly clear, I do not want links to opposition in the wider world. I've come across references to that before. I just find it hard to believe that the AMS would oppose gifted education.)
The list is missing Manim for visualization. I tried it out because I was curious how 3b1b creates his videos and was blown away by the simplicity of the tool. For simple visualization and teaching aid, Manim is a great tool.
I was wondering about that too. They are perhaps most important tools for both CS and pure mathematics.
It’s very interesting that Lean has exploded in the mathematics community. Kevin Buzzard talks about it a lot, but I haven’t seen a talk which explains why Lean succeeded in creating a gargantuan math library whereas Coq only recently got respectable math library in “MathComp” (I am also including Analysis library).
I would like to know apart from social reasons what technical choices lead to Lean dominating (ordinary/regular/pure) mathematics.
I hear “quotients” but no one actual explains with a concrete example.
I think it all comes down to the aesthetics and user experience. The Lean webpage is inviting and modern. Coq’s website looks like it’s from the 90s. Lean’s integration with Visual Studio Code is clean and user friendly. The language itself is familiar and polished. The imprimatur of a Microsoft team producing Lean being makes it seem more sophisticated.
In my experience: one of Lean's main advantages is developer experience. It's convenient by design, with lots of automation to make easy proofs trivial. You do your work in VSCode or Emacs rather than some outdated IDE, and the server mode makes it easy(ish) to integrate with other software.
But Lean4 is in alpha stage and there are no official stable releases yet, of course it's not well-documented nor polished yet. Lean3 works perfectly well and has everything you need.
Not sure what the criteria is to be included in this list, but I've used this software for dynamical systems and there doesn't appear to be anything listed for that category.
The first time I used Mathematica (20 years ago) it blew my mind. To be fair it was the first time I used a CAS and so the very idea of a computer crushing me at several calculus tasks was incredible.
From the open source alternatives the better supported I think is (wx)Maxima, which for the simple tasks I usually require (i.e some Taylor series, check cumbersome trigometric equations, ...) it's more than enough although it's true it lacks by a long margin the polish of Mathematica. Recently I'm considering buying an educational version of Mathematica just for the convenience. It sucks it's a closed source program but it's rare, although not impossible, for open source alternatives to have the same good documentation and ease of use. I guess that the attention to these details is not something people usually do unless being paid.
That's probably because they wanted to use juxtaposition for multiplication. Otherwise, “f(x)” could mean either f applied to x or f times x in parentheses.
This is just a filler page to make it look like they have some content. It's not a serious list of mathematical software. There are good ones of those done elsewhere.