On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 2:56 PM, William Stein<wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello, > > Grant proposal season is upon us, and things are in the works. > Imagine somebody said to you: > > "Please send me a list of items you would like us to fund. What I > need is just a sentence or two (at most a > paragraph) describing the work ... and a ballpark estimate of the cost." > > Feel free to post in this thread any wishlist ideas along these lines > that you might have. They could make there way into a proposal that > might get funded, and Sage development would consequently benefit > greatly.
I really think there is a serious lack of ability of Sage to handle differential equations. The desolve function doesn't work properly for 2nd order IVPs, for example. PDEs are not covered at all. Maybe one should simply swap Maxima with Sympy, but that is just a guess. In any case, that is a serious lack IMHO. A second thing I'd like, and which seems to be of general interest, is more complete canvas+html5 3d plotting functionality, including possible animation output (as something that can be embedded in a webpage, or viewed separately). Things I think would be cool: 1) spreadsheet functionality, 2) a Sage firefox-plugin toolbar, like the Blender toolbar but customizable if possible, 3) more "fast" algorithms for error-correcting codes, such as the spectrum for non-binary codes, 4) reliable Riemann-Roch space basis computations for smooth projective curves, 5) automorphism groups of smooth projective curves of genus > 1. > > Thanks! > > William > > > -- > William Stein > Associate Professor of Mathematics > University of Washington > http://wstein.org > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
