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AIMS OS

Regular Mathematical Sciences track

The Regular track is the common foundation for the whole AIMS cohort. The aims-os-math metapackage gathers the tools you need for the pure math, modelling, scientific computing, HPC and thesis-writing courses.

Metapackage: aims-os-math

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Installed by default on the ISO. On an existing Debian:

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sudo apt install aims-os-math

What’s inside

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Scientific Python

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NumPy, SciPy, SymPy, pandas, matplotlib, seaborn, scikit-learn, statsmodels, networkx, mpi4py (HPC), biopython (bio modelling), scikit-image, igraph, rpy2 (R from Python), pytables (HDF5), pygments, reportlab.

Jupyter

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jupyter-notebook, jupyter-server, ipywidgets, nbconvert. The JupyterLab UI itself is not packaged by Debian. Install on demand with pipx install jupyterlab or mamba install -c conda-forge jupyterlab.

Computer algebra and numerical computing

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Maxima + wxMaxima, GNU Octave with the symbolic / statistics / optim / control / signal modules.

SageMath is not in Trixie. The recommended path:

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mamba install -c conda-forge sagemath

(Miniforge already ships in /opt/miniforge3 via aims-os-core.)

R

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r-base, r-recommended, tidyverse, ggplot2, dplyr, knitr, rmarkdown.

LaTeX

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TeX Live full, with the French, English, other-languages (covers African languages: wolof, swahili, amharic, hausa, twi) and arabic language packs. TeXstudio + biber + latexmk + dvipng for the thesis toolchain.

Geometry and plotting

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GeoGebra, gnuplot.

C / C++ / Fortran

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gdb, valgrind, OpenBLAS, LAPACK, FFTW, HDF5, GMP, MPFR. The whole chain for compiling numerical code.

Python code quality

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black (formatter), python3-mypy (type checker). ruff (fast Rust linter) is installed separately via pipx at ISO build time.

Courses covered

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aims-os-math directly covers:

  • Algebraic Topology and Applications
  • Applied PDEs (Modelling)
  • Bio-Mathematics
  • Classical Mechanics
  • Computational Finance with R
  • Computing with Python
  • Data Collections, Data Preprocessing
  • Differential Calculus, Differential Geometry
  • Graph Theory and Application
  • High Dimensional Data Analysis
  • Linear Algebra and Applications
  • Mathematical Logic, Mathematical Methods for Climate
  • Mathematical Problem Solving
  • Measure and Integration
  • Numerical Optimization
  • Physical Problem Solving, Probability and Statistics
  • Statistical Mechanics, Theoretical aspects of PDEs
  • Topology and Functional Analysis, Topology Data Analysis

See the full course mapping for the precise breakdown.

And the Coop tracks?

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The aims-os-bigdata and aims-os-security packages explicitly depend on aims-os-math. If you are in Coop Big Data or Coop Security, installing your track package pulls the whole Regular base automatically.