On 10/28/07, Fabio Tonti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm just copy and pasting something which I spoke about with cwitty and > Martin Albrecht. > > So this is it: > Why is there not emphasize on sagemath.org about the fact that sage can also > be used for natural sciences/engineering applications etc.? > I think that first of all this would mean more users coming to sage. > > What do you people think about it? I mean as far as I know, SAGE includes > many libraries and OSCASs which can be used for data analysis etc. Why not > put some emphasis on these applications? I'm perfectly comfortable with > "pure math", and it's also one of my main interests, but I also think that > applied math has its justification (I'm mainly interested in physics in this > case). But e.g. with the R project, sage could also address the needs of > others. > So what do you say??
The simple answer is that currently most people involved in creating Sage are pure mathematicians, so this is what we know best, so what we emphasize. I would love for the Sage web page, etc., to also strongly emphasize the value of Sage for a much wider range of "computational thinking". Specific suggestions for ways to improve things are very much welcome. Best regards, William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
