Perspective Chapter: Cloud Computing and the Laboratory of Numerical Mathematics
Péter Gábor Szabó, Zuzana Hajduová, Tibor Muszka · Education and human development · 2025
Universities and research organizations have cloud-based infrastructures, allowing users to access computing resources. This chapter describes how we can use cloud computing technology to create a numerical mathematics laboratory. With the help of cloud computing, we create a virtual computer suitable for performing complex mathematical calculations and creating auxiliary materials for mathematics education and research. We illustrate these properties of our technology with three simple examples. The virtual computer will be available in our university’s cloud infrastructure. We perform the calculations using the SageMath notebook server, which uses the latest version of the Python language and runs on the Ubuntu operating system. The JupyterLab interface provides communication between the user and the server. Open-source systems ensure access to data and programs.