Hi Michael, Actually, I thought that this discussion (especially people much more expert than me) has clarified the point that implementing integrals is not really just matter of a couple of months... but I would be glad to see this happen!
I know there are some license issues with SymPy (not really issues, just differences probably) but I think there's no problem in taking inspiration and some pieces of code from it, right? I'm saying this, because I can see this new symbolic stuff exciting, but without the right amount of interest on it, its development will always be a little slow Regards Maurizio On Apr 21, 1:12 am, mabshoff <mabsh...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On Apr 20, 1:12 pm, Maurizio <maurizio.gran...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi Burcin, thanks for replying! > > <SNIP> > > > I don't know what about those algorithms, but it seems to me that > > SymPy already implements some good heuristics, which can solve > > integrals that Mathematica can't. > > Well, there are many, many integrals that MMA can do that Sympy > cannot. So it doesn't matter that in this specific case SymPy solves > it. > > > So can we take this as a starting > > point? I see that it is certainly possible to implement everything > > from the beginning, but a bootstrapped start seems better to me in the > > short term, because this could provide the user the functionalities > > needed. This could be useful to speed up the switch to the new > > symbolic system (I think you wouldn't do that without a good > > integration engine), and once there, you got a great exposure to bug > > fixing by users. > > Well, talking about it won't make it happen :). People working on > Symbolics in Sage are well aware of Sympy and its capabilities, but it > is BSD (i.e. some people won't work on it) and abstract mathematical > capabilities aren't as well developed as in Sage and often quite a bit > slower. Pynac is building Symbolics from the ground up and it has > taken a while to get to where we are and another couple months more or > less won't make a difference at this point. > > > Thanks > > > Maurizio > > Cheers, > > Michael --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
