On Friday, October 10, 2014 6:26:24 PM UTC-7, Alasdair wrote: > > I've written an article about using Sage to develop explicit Runge-Kutta > formulas for the numerical solution of ODEs. >
Since the use of a computer algebra system to develop explicit R-K formulas is pretty much of a classic operation, and can be done by Maxima which is open source, and in fact seems to be done by Maxima in your paper, with a gloss of Sage on top, it is not clear that you have something new to contribute. Besides, high-order RK methods are, as I recall, not very appealing in practice. So it's not an advance in numerical analysis, nor in applications of a CAS. It's not appealing to people who who might reasonably ask, What does Sage contribute. It's not of much interest in terms of programming languages -- Maxima is sort of Algol-60 ish. but usually Sage contributes only clutter to the language. And I guess you are just feeding it simple commands. So it is basically of interest to fans of Sage who also care about Runge-Kutta formulas and might appreciate your explanations. Maybe that's not a large audience. But perhaps the reviews you've gotten already say this? Good luck. So > I've sent it off to a few journals, all of whom have rejected it - > clearly it's not quite the right "fit" for any of them: it's too technical > for education journals, and not theoretical enough for computer algebra > journals. So I'm throwing it open to co-authorship, in the hope that > somebody may be interested in working with me to produce a publishable > article. > > You can check it out at http://arxiv.org/abs/1402.3883 > > If you're interested in helping me polishing this up (and getting full > co-authorship) let me know! > > By the way, if this is not the right forum for a question like this, I'm > happy for this query to be forwarded elsewhere. > > cheers, > Alasdair > -- 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/d/optout.
