Hi, Paul Zimmermann asked me for a "brief history of Sage" to help inform a talk he is going to give about Sage. I sat down to write such a thing and instead ended up writing a long 16 page account of my involvement in math software until about 2007, along with my motivations for working on Sage. It's pretty detailed and *uncensored*:
http://wstein.org/mathsoftbio/history.pdf or http://sagemath.blogspot.com/2009/12/mathematical-software-and-me-very.html 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 URL: http://www.sagemath.org