On Thu, 30 Nov 2006 19:16:39 -0800, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Below is a message from a student who I met, who had tried to use SAGE
> but a) found the dependence on knowledge of rings to be awkward
I think currently SAGE is not aimed at people who haven't had
a course in abstract algebra. Various people have done a lot of
work for SAGE that is aimed at such people, but frankly I do
not have a good strategy to make SAGE accessible
to people who know about groups, rings, fields, etc.
I'm interested in starting some brainstorming about ways to make SAGE very
accessible to people who don't know about those algebraic structures.
Ideas? For starters, perhaps David Kaplan could suggest a couple
of specific sample problems that he would like to use SAGE to solve,
and we could think about how:
(1) they could be done, but require unreasonable knowledge of algebra
(2) they can't be easily done right now, but could be if we put
some additional code in SAGE.
SAGE includes Maxima, and Maxima is extremely capable at Calculus related
computations -- so one question is how to make such capabilities
available from SAGE without the user having to know anything about maxima
(or even what maxima is). So far SAGE is terrible at this, compared to
how good it could be.
> b) didn't get much info out of the documentation.
> He's very excited about open source software, especially for
> mathematics, and seems to be interested in working on documentation.
> One thing he explicitly expressed interest in was helping make a short
> tutorial for getting started with SAGE. David J., you're working on
> such a thing, aren't you?
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 17:06:28 -0800 (PST)
> From: David Kaplan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Sage
>
> This is my email. I am interested in helping the Sage Project in any way
> possible. I was thinking documentation.
> Dave K.
> Im working on Mandriva Linux, btw, but I can test on the standardized
> cygwin binary too.
>
>
>
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