Differnces between Sympy and Matlab (symbolic math toolbox)

About

Symbolic Math toolbox is a software which is optimized to for handling and operating on symbolic math expressions within the Matlab numeric environment. It contains hundreds of matlab symbolic functions used for various mathematical operations like integration,differentiation etc...

Sympy is a python library for symbolic mathematics. Refer the link for more information.

http://docs.sympy.org/dev/tutorial.html

Accessibility

Symbolic Math

All functions can be accessed through the matlab command window or directly through mupad's noteboook interface.

Sympy

It can be used through python interpreter (idle) or sympy's isympy. Refer this link on how to access sympy functionality through commandline.

http://docs.sympy.org/dev/tutorial.html#isympy-console

Operating system requirements: Since symbolic math toolbox comes with matlab, it can/cannot run on certain operating systems. Sympy runs on most of the os's which support python 2.4 or higher. Here is a comparison between sympy and symbolic math toolbox for the same.

Os Comparison Table

Name of the OS	Sympy (v0.7.1)	Symbolic Math Toolbox (v5.7)
Windows	Yes	Yes
Linux	Yes	Yes
BSD	Yes	No
Unix	Yes	No
Dos	No	No

Functionality performed:

Please refer the table below to look at the different mathematical tasks performed between the two.

Mathematical Tasks