Choosing a compatible advisor is very important, and if working on open-source/free software is important to you then you should bring up the issue very early on.
The points made above are all very good too. Its probably best to figure out what you are most interested in working on, and then deciding if it makes sense to use Sage for it. Best regards, M. Hampton On Sep 17, 7:45 pm, Ivan Andrus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sep 17, 2008, at 10:51 AM, William Stein wrote: > > > So the short answer is that you could (and should :-) ) > > work on Sage a lot in nearly any Ph.D. program in the world. > > I guess my concern is really that I have known several professors who > have the attitude of "why don't you just use Maple, it's more popular/ > powerful", or "we have a license for Magma, you should use that". I > think a large part of it boils down to them not wanting to learn a new > language/environment. Perhaps this fear is unfounded (I hope so). > > -Ivan --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
