On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 10:05 PM, Marshall Hampton <hampto...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On May 17, 11:13 pm, Ondrej Certik <ond...@certik.cz> wrote: > * at the very end of the presentation there was a discussion about > numeric stuff. There are tons of computational programs in lots of > fields (atomic physics, quantum field theory, electromagnetics, > electronic structure calculations, fluid dynamics, atmospheric > sciences, nuclear engineering ....) and there is just no way how this > can all be in Sage. Nevertheless, people would like to teach with it, > let's say some electrodynamic course, or finite element course, or > (partial) differential equations course. Sage currently cannot do any > of that. > > Why can't it all be included? At least as optional packages, I can > imagine having all of that in Sage. It just seems to be a chicken-and- > egg issue to me, we need those features to attract those users, and > the corresponding users to supply the packages. This is where Matlab > really has a huge lead, and it will take time to chip away at that. > But conceptually I don't understand why it couldn't happen. >
I agree. We can do anything if we have enough energy, organization, resources, and work hard enough. Having the SPD project build up infrastructure in the numerical direction is a great way to organize ourselves in order to accomplish more. -- William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
