Le lundi 1 décembre 2014 15:09:53 UTC+1, Bruno Grenet a écrit : > > > Le 01/12/2014 08:53, Nathann Cohen a écrit : > > Kanappan wanted to work on an english translation at some point, but > > there was no news since and he work in Canada nowadays. Not sure that > > he has a lot of time for that. > >> I guess the number of available books on Maple and > >> Mathematica is a reason for some teachers to choose these languages. To > my > >> mind, it would be much more efficient (though maybe more work too) than > a > >> marketing document! > > The good thing is that we do not even have to chose between the two. > > Of course! As a first step for a translation, we should maybe > investigate to find an appropriate free software to support > collaborative translation. I guess it is a huge work to do it alone, it > is maybe more feasible if we are a group of people working on this. > > Yet I now remember the existence Gregory Bard's "Sage for > Undergraduates" that has a similar goal, making a translation of "Calcul > mathématique avec Sage" less needed. >
Having read both books, I have to tell that "Sage for undergraduates" aims at the general public of US undergraduates, and (in the opinion of a french dentist (yes !)) gives much less incentives to understand neither Sage nor mathematics in depth than "Calcul mathématique avec Sage". In other words, "Sage for undergraduates" gives some answers, whereas "Calcul mathématique avec Sage" gives you more questions, which ,IMNSHO, is much more important and rewarding in the long term. I grab this occasion to suggest to Paul Zimmerman and his crew to (try to) create an epub version of their marvelous book : reading a pdf on a small tablet or a phone is *not* fun... If I knew where to find the *LaTeX* source of this book (converting a PDF isn't worth the work...), I'd try my hand to it. HTH, -- Emmanuel Charpentier -- 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.
