On 12 March 2010 14:01, David Kohel <drko...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Nicolas, > > The list sage-nt was set up to have a lower volume and lower noise > forum > for sage-devel issues with mathematical (number theoretic) interest. > > I also don't track sage-combinat for similar reasons as John, and > miss > most of what passes on sage-devel due to the high volume. Maybe > there should be a sage-algebra list (as John suggested) for
OK, David, why don't you start up a sage-algebra list? Its description should try to make clear the distinction between "abstract algebra" i nthe pure mathematical sense and "computer algebra" on the symbolic sense. I'll join. John > discussions > of algebraic and categorical topics of mathematical interest. I'm > likely > to miss discussions on sage-devel in between discussions of compiler > and architecture problems. > > Cheers, > > David > > On Mar 10, 5:31 pm, "Nicolas M. Thiery" <nicolas.thi...@u-psud.fr> > wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 09:59:41AM +0000, John Cremona wrote: >> > To me "combinat" is short for "combinatorics", which is different from >> > what I do (number theory, and more generally algebra). I certainly >> > did not realise when the combinat people joined Sage how useful they >> > and what they do would be for people like me! (This is supposed to be >> > a compliment). >> >> I appreciate the compliment :-) >> >> > But I get the impression that quite a lot of discussion about design >> > in this area is happening in sage-combinat, which it never occurred to >> > me to join (since I don't do cominatorics). Would it be better to >> > have another discussion group for (say) sage-algebra? Or is it >> > impossible to separate what I think of as algebra with the rest of >> > what goes in in sage-combinat? >> >> You are perfectly right. It is some sort of deviance that, since we so >> much need the category stuff for (algebraic) combinatorics, I tend to >> discuss anything related on sage-combinat. The line is fine, but in >> that case, I shall instead run the discussion on sage-devel, and just >> crosspost a notice on sage-combinat. >> >> Cheers, >> Nicolas >> -- >> Nicolas M. Thi ry "Isil" <nthi...@users.sf.net>http://Nicolas.Thiery.name/ > > -- > 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 > -- 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
