On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 3:02 PM, David Joyner<wdjoy...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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.
Aaron was working extremely hard this summer on the ODEs in sympy as a GSoC, we are still reviewing his latest branch, but it should land in sympy soon. I will compare with maxima later on, but I would not be surprised if it's still pretty good. These things can't be fixed overnight. Ondrej --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
