1. Sage can be used as a comprehensive Mathematics computation engine (similarly to Mathematica, or Maple), by calling the functions that are already available for you.

2. “Whenever you use Sage you are accessing one of the world’s largest collections of open source computational algorithms”

3. Sage uses a Python-like syntax (as an alternative to using Pascal, C, or CCC, etc.).

4. There is a reason why, in the recent years, the Python programming language beca.me more and more popular and now many Universities are teaching Python as a first programming language (CS 0) to students that are majoring in Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, Information Technology, even Mathematics. Some even teach CS 1 in Python and CS 2 in CCC. There are several articles claiming that Python is THE favorite Introduction to Programming Language.

5. Perhaps one of the greatest advantage of using Sage is the fact that it is FREE. You simply can’t beat that price. Moreover, there are many user manuals available on Sage website and on a growing number of other websites.

6. Sage is Open Source. What does this imply? Among others it means that there are a lot of source codes available for everyone to see, analyze, and use for free. This gives you a tremendous potential for new research.

7. Easy access to Sage. You can download Sage and use it as a stand alone application, on your own computer, without any need to be connected to the Internet or you can use web-based client that can be accessible from virtually everywhere you have access to the Internet, without installing anything on your computer.

8. Sage Math is a great tool for many other courses not only Numerical Analysis. There are several existing books on how to use it in Calculus, Linear Algebra, Number Theory, Computational Statistics, Discrete Mathematics, Differential Equations and many others courses. There are extensive libraries that can be used for these subject areas, and the number of them grows every day.