This chapter has given you a quick, high-level overview of some of the many things that Sage can do for you. Don't worry if you feel a little lost, or if you had trouble trying to modify the examples. Everything you need to know will be covered in detail in later chapters.
Specifically, we looked at:
Using Sage as a sophisticated scientific and graphing calculator
Speeding up tedious tasks in symbolic mathematics
Solving a system of linear equations, a system of algebraic equations, and an ordinary differential equation
Making publication-quality plots in two and three dimensions
Using Sage for data analysis and model fitting in a practical setting
Hopefully, you are convinced that Sage will be the right tool to assist you in your work, and you are ready to install Sage on your computer. In the next chapter, you will learn how to install Sage on various platforms.