SymPy

Project ideas

33 ideas on its 2026 ideas page; of the 28 that state a difficulty: 4 easy, 5 medium, 19 hard. Sizes: 3 small, 9 medium, 20 large. 2 mentors named.

1. Polynomial GCD medium hard
2. Benchmarks and performance medium easy
3. Assumptions large hard
4. Solvers large hard
5. Optimize floating point expressions large hard
6. Group theory large hard
7. Risch algorithm for symbolic integration large
8. Rule-based symbolic integration large hard
9. Improving Series Expansions & Limit Computations medium medium
10. Cylindrical algebraic decomposition large
11. Efficient Groebner bases and their applications large
12. Multivariate polynomials and factorization large hard
13. Univariate polynomials over algebraic domains large hard
14. Concrete module: Implement Karr algorithm, a decision procedure for symbolic summation large hard
15. Symbolic Control Systems (sympy.physics.control) large medium
16. Continuum Mechanics: Create a Rich 2D Beam Solving System large medium
17. Classical Mechanics: Generalize the Equations of Motion System Output large hard
18. Classical Mechanics: Implement and Benchmark Equations of Motion Methods medium medium
19. Classical Mechanics: Efficient Equations of Motion Generation medium easy
20. Classical Mechanics: Implement Wrapping Geometry and Pathways for Musculoskeletal Modeling small easy
21. Classical Mechanics: Implement Specific Forces and Torques small easy
22. Classical Mechanics: Constructing Systems From Bodies and Joints small hard
23. Classical Mechanics: Implement an O(N) Equations of Motion Method large hard
24. Enhancing the flexibility of MatchPy large hard
25. Code Generation medium hard
26. Code Generation: Efficient Jacobian and Hessian Evaluation for Optimization and ODE Integration medium hard
27. Improve the Lark-based LaTeX parser medium medium
28. Parsing medium hard
29. Improve the plotting module large hard
30. Documentation tooling hard
31. Hypothesis testing large hard
32. SymPy -> Fortran Code Generation and JIT large
33. Parsing Fortran code to SymPy large

Read the ideas page. Ideas are for scope reference; never copy one into a proposal.

History

In GSoC since 2016, 11 years. Projects per year: '16: 7, '17: 8, '18: 7, '19: 10, '20: 6, '21: 6, '22: 3, '23: 5, '24: 5, '25: 6, '26: 5.

On GitHub

9 repositories pushed to in the last year. Main languages: Python (6), HTML (2), CSS (1).

Links and channels

• Website: https://www.sympy.org/
• Ideas page: https://github.com/sympy/sympy/wiki/GSoC-Ideas
• Contributor guide: https://github.com/sympy/sympy/wiki/GSoC-Student-Instructions
• Source code: https://github.com/sympy/sympy
• Mailing list: https://groups.google.com/g/sympy

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