In teaching: I used SAGE for some sections of a differential equations course I was teaching last fall. Wasn't sure if the students would just "take the hit" and refuse to learn SAGE so I made the assignments worth very little and very easy. Also, I made extra assignments for extra credit. It turned out not only did most do the assignment but a lot more than I expected did the extra credit ones too and say that they liked SAGE and its philosophy. I would call it a success in teaching.
In research: I wrote some time ago a procedure for computing Duursma zeta functions of a linear error-correcting code. AFAIK, no other program does this (not GUAVA nor MAGMA, ...). These zeta functions are very similar to the zeta function of a curve (they have a functional equation, a "Riemann hypothesis", etc), except that no one knows why the "Riemann hypothesis" doesn't always hold. There is a conjecture that it holds for a certain "extremal" class of codes, so maybe the RH holds for "good" or "optimal" codes (since optimal codes are sometimes extremal)? A year or 2 ago, I found an example of a formally self-dual with optimal parameters which violates the RH. I would call that a success in research. On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 6:15 AM, Harald Schilly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, I'm working on the Sage website. > > I am searching for interesting content and this time I want to ask > everyone who has used Sage for his or her research or in education in > class to write a short success story. It should talk about how it was > used and the general and personal experience. Just some sentences to > give new users a first impression of Sage. > > thanks and greetings, Harald > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-edu" group. To post to this group, send email to sage-edu@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-edu?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
