Re: Programming skills required by mathematicians?

rAgAv wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm a highschool graduate and I'm going to major in Mathematics this
> Fall. I would like to have a foundation in programming so that it
> would be useful in my later career as a mathematician with interests
> in logic, numerical analysis, formal systems and that sort.
> 
> I don't know enough technicalities to seek the right sort of
> programming that I should learn now. I wish to hear advice on what
> sort of programming skills a pure mathematician would find useful.
> 
> Regards.
> 
> PS - At the moment, I know only the basics of C++.

You should take a look at Sage:

http://www.sagemath.org/

Sage is built by and for mathematicians!

Sage is a free mathematics software package.
It combines the power of many existing open-source
packages into a common Python-based interface.

Jaap Spies