On Jan 16, 2014 5:06 AM, "Simon King" <simon.k...@uni-jena.de> wrote: > > Hi! > > On 2014-01-15, rjf <fate...@gmail.com> wrote: > > PS, I think it is unfortunate if a user of Sage must know what is meant by > > a polynomial ring in order to > > do something from high school algebra. Just saying. > > Just saying: I think it is unfortunate that some (not all) high schools pretend > to teach polynomials to their students without telling them what is a ring. My > grammar school had a focus on music and old languages (not on maths), but > nonetheless we had axiomatic definitions for groups, rings, modules and so on; > e.g., proving 1>0 in ordered fields was a homework exercise. >
Awesome. I had never heard of a ring or group until my last year of undergraduate studies! Maybe sage is just my grand scheme to increase the chance that people learn about some of the most basic (and beautiful) ideas in math at a younger age... > Best regards, > Simon > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
