On Dec 10, 2007 8:37 PM, Ondrej Certik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As one advances through graduate school and beyond, computers become an > > indispensable part and parcel of learning and research. Undergraduate > > students are taught the theory of the subject "by doing everything > > long-hand" and the computer is often not used as a tool to further > > learning. It appears that the author's opinion is purely based on his > > experience as an undergraduate student and should be discounted for being > > ill-formed. > > Disclaimer: I am not a mathematician, I am only a theoretical physics > graduate student. > > I think the author is actually right about this. I always found this > argument about "seeing inside the code to beleive a mathematical > proof" weak.
Maybe I should elaborate on this one: of course you need the source code to do some serious calculation, or mathematical proof. But even if Mathematica released all relevant source code needed to understand/fix the calculation, I don't really care. It's the open source (free) thing, that is important to me. Ondrej --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
