OSCAR Computer Algebra System

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What is OSCAR?

The OSCAR project develops a comprehensive Open Source Computer Algebra Research system for computations in algebra, geometry, and number theory, written in Julia. In particular, the emphasis is on supporting complex computations which require a high level of integration of tools from different mathematical areas.

The development of OSCAR is supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft DFG within the Collaborative Research Center TRR 195.

See the About page for more information.

Getting started

For tutorials, see the Tutorials page, where pre-rendered notebooks showcase selected things the software developed in the OSCAR project can already do.

If you wish to contribute to the OSCAR development, see the Installation page for instructions on how to install it, and also check out our community page. See the News page for announcements about OSCAR development.

The Book

The book The Computer Algebra System OSCAR presents version 1.0 of OSCAR. It is an invitation to use OSCAR. With discussions of theoretical and algorithmic aspects included, it offers a multitude of explicit code snippets. These are valuable for interested researchers from graduate students through established experts.

Code snippets and list of errata are available on the companion website at https://book.oscar-system.org/

Get in touch

A great place to ask questions about OSCAR and discuss all aspects of it is via Slack – click here to join it. Please check out the community page for further ways to get in touch with us.

Citing OSCAR

If you have used OSCAR in the preparation of a paper please cite it as described below:

[OSCAR]
    OSCAR -- Open Source Computer Algebra Research system, Version 1.0.0,
    The OSCAR Team, 2024. (https://www.oscar-system.org)
[OSCAR-book]
    Wolfram Decker, Christian Eder, Claus Fieker, Max Horn, Michael Joswig, eds.
    The Computer Algebra System OSCAR: Algorithms and Examples,
    Algorithms and Computation in Mathematics, Springer, 2024. (https://link.springer.com/book/9783031621260)

If you are using BibTeX, you can use the following BibTeX entries:

@misc{OSCAR,
  key          = {OSCAR},
  organization = {The OSCAR Team},
  title        = {OSCAR -- Open Source Computer Algebra Research system,
                  Version 1.0.0},
  year         = {2024},
  url          = {https://www.oscar-system.org},
  }

@book{OSCAR-book,
  editor = {Decker, Wolfram and Eder, Christian and Fieker, Claus and Horn, Max and Joswig, Michael},
  title = {The {C}omputer {A}lgebra {S}ystem {OSCAR}: {A}lgorithms and {E}xamples},
  year = {2024},
  publisher = {Springer},
  series = {Algorithms and {C}omputation in {M}athematics},
  volume = {32},
  edition = {1},
  url = {https://link.springer.com/book/9783031621260},
  issn = {1431-1550},
}