Timothy wrote: > I have spent about 11 hours working on a letter to the Project, Google > Highly Open Participation group to get Sage involved in that contest. > William and Ondrej were very helpful and reviewed several drafts. > Please review, ask questions and give comments? Thank you!
I have included some editing thoughts below with deletions in red and additions in green. I hope that the rich text mode worked and if not, let me know and I will send you my suggestions in a separate document. Ted > Dear Python's Project for the Google Highly Open Participation group, > > I am a 17 year old home schooled high school student in Seattle, > Washington and contributor to a Python based open source mathematics > software project called Sage (http://sagemath.org). Onrej Certik, > creator of SymPy (http://sympy.org), suggested that the Sage project > participate in this contest as a Python project. I think that is a > wonderful idea because in the Sage project there are a lot of many > interesting and accessible problems to work on and many numerous ways for pre- > university students to contribute time. I would like to get Sage > involved in the contest by introducing Sage, planning Sage > involvement, and writing and supervising tickets. I do not want to be > a contestant. > > Sage is a massive extension to Python for all kinds of mathematical > computing. The goal of the Sage project is to develop an open source > alternative to the math software Maple, Mathematica, MATLAB, and > Magma. To achieve this goal in a reasonable about amount of time, the Sage > developers did not reinvent the wheel. Instead, the Sage project has > produced a system with a wide range of functionality in almost less thanthree > years by maintaining a distribution of the best available math > software and writing a Python library that unifies the software and > libraries and eliminates much of the complexity of many of these > packages for the end users. > > Many people first started seriously using Python because of Sage. At > every introductory talk on Sage, the advantages to using Python over > other languages and its popularity are well emphasized. Thanks in > great part to Python, Sage is an excellent system for teaching > students about both math and computer science. > > Sage has a web environment called the Sage Notebook, and two free > public notebook servers are available at http://sagenb.com and http://sagenb.org. A > Sage worksheet is similar to a Mathematica notebook and, although it > lacks many of the neat features of Crunchy, it does provide a fairly > robust notebook system. Some of the features of it are Sage's features include user accounts, > worksheet sharing, tab completion, infinite loop survival, two and > three dimensional graphics, interactive documentation, and public > notebook security. > > The Sage Notebook is also an excellent platform for creating mathematical > art. A good example of that is a worksheet called "New Found Spin" at > https://sage.math.washington.edu:8102/home/pub/11/. > > Although most of the focus of Sage development is on aiding cutting > edge mathematical research, Sage has good support for elementary > algebra, geometry, trigonometry, and calculus. Also, some of Sage's > upper level mathematics functionality is accessible to many high > school and college students. For example, in the summer of 2006, (under > the direction of William Stein, lead developer of Sage), 24 talented > high school students used Sage via the notebook in a computer lab to explore > the congruent number problem and in the process were introducded introduced to > the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture (http://wstein.org/simuw06/). > Then, in the next summer, another 24 students used Sage to comprehend > Riemann's Hypothesis (http://wstein.org/simuw/). > > I think that there lots of are many ways that pre-university students can contribute > to Sage. > > Timothy Clemans > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
