On Jun 23, 2009, at 6:15 PM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > I think we should really make some effort to improve our page on > Wikipedia.
I'll second this. Wikipedia is the highest source of traffic for Cython after google and people typing in cython.org directly (despite an only average page)--I wouldn't be surprised if it accounts for a significant proportion of potential and actual sage hits as well. > > Comparing the Sage and Mathematica pages on Wikipedia shows the > Mathematica one is much nicer. Would it not be sensible to put some > effort into promoting Sage there? If it looks like the program is more > complete, one has a greater chance of getting people using it and > attracting more developers. > > As you know, I'm interested in porting sage to Solaris, as I'm a > Solaris > user and want to use it there. Hence I'm not a Sage user. Looking > on the > Mathematica Wikipedia entry, there is one person who definitely (and > admits) he works for WRI and another I suspect does, as his edits > to the > Mathematica page always promote it, and his edits to the Sage page > always demotes it. (When I asked, he declines to answer). > > What of the following could we say Sage supports? Can someone give > me a > yes/no or brief comment by each of these. > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > Some features of Mathematica include: > > * Libraries of elementary and special mathematical functions > * 2D and 3D data and function visualization tools > * Matrix and data manipulation tools including support for sparse > arrays > * Solvers for systems of equations, ODEs, PDEs, DAEs, DDEs and > recurrence relations > * Numeric and symbolic tools for discrete and continuous calculus > * Multivariate statistics libraries > * Constrained and unconstrained local and global optimization > * A programming language supporting procedural, functional and > object oriented constructs > * A toolkit for adding user interfaces to calculations and > applications > * Tools for image processing [5] > * Tools for visualizing and analysing graphs > * Data mining tools such as cluster analysis, sequence alignment > and pattern matching > * Libraries of number theory functions > * Continuous and discrete integral transforms > * Import and export filters for data, images, video, sound, CAD, > GIS, document and biomedical formats > * A collection of databases of mathematical, scientific, and > socio-economic information (see below) > * Support for complex number, arbitrary precision and symbolic > computation for all functions > * Notebook interface for review and re-use of previous inputs and > outputs including graphics and text annotations > * Technical word processing including formula editing and > automated > report generating > * Tools for connecting to SQL, Java, .NET, C++, FORTRAN and http > based systems > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
