On Dec 22, 2007, at 5:08 PM, William Stein wrote: >> It's all about calculus. I am willing to make a bet that 90% of Sage >> users will >> only need calculus. So it ought to work really, really well. It's >> still a long way though. > > I agree. That's one reason I'm so happy you are now a sage developer!
Me too. I've been struck by the fact that most of the people that I've talked to about Sage, including graduate students (in other fields), are most interested in the calculus kind of stuff. > Probably 2d and 3d visualization are also at least as important as > calculus to the target audience we are talking about. Linear algebra > and numerical solving is also extremely important... (thanks mike and > robertwb for implementing symbolic matrices for 2.9.1!!!!) I was tired of no one else doing any thing about that, and had two people tell me just a week ago that they'd probably use Sage if it had symbolic matrices. BTW, Mike, what did you change? Were you able to get the eigenvalues command to work? (That's why I didn't post it as [with patch], though it's certainly more than what used to be there.) > > Ted, what functionality do you see as being most important for the > "scientific calculator" target audience you have in your pie chart? I liked your chart :-). I'd add that there's also a large chunk of Matlab users who occasionally want to do something symbolic, and probably similarly for the other Ma*. Even if this is a smaller piece of the pie, they're the users that are comfortable with sitting down at a computer and firing up a program to get their answers. - Robert --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
