Great work guys! I will do what I can to get some high school math
teachers to 'take the plunge' and start exploring. I'm sure they will
appreciate these groups and how helpful you all are!
Tom
On Aug 14, 7:44 pm, J Elaych <microsc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Awesome! I used a sage notebook hooked up to a video projector
> for my final presentation in a statistical physics class. I used
> random matrices and random graphs and just scrolled through a
> notebook with code, images, latex and html to give my talk. I
> too mention sage every chance I get.
>
> So is anybody going to the Scipy conference next week in Pasadena?
>
> On Aug 12, 12:57 pm, Rob Beezer <goo...@beezer.cotse.net> wrote:
>
> > The Mathematical Association of America held its summer meeting
> > ("MathFest") in
> > Portland, Oregon last week.
>
> > Jason Grout gave an excellent presentation on Sage interacts, concisely
> > describing Sage and pitching the ease of building interacts for classroom
> > demonstrations. Dylan Poulsen showed his G1 Android phone running the same
> > linear transformation demo as the one Jason was showing. Not only was the
> > presentation very good, but Jason looked very good doing it (see attached
> > photo,
> > courtesy of Dylan).
>
> > Tom Boothby gave an excellent research talk on embedding permutation string
> > diagrams.
>
> > I gave a talk about the Hoffman-Singleton graph which was totally
> > Sage-powered,
> > since about half of the slides, and both animations, were images output
> > from a
> > Sage script. The graph theory developers might enjoy seeing what they have
> > wrought:http://buzzard.ups.edu/talks.html
>
> > Jason and I also had a very productive coffee-shop meeting with two
> > interested
> > people, introducing them to the Sage development process and community.
>
> > Anecdotally, I asked everybody I knew, "Have you seen Sage?" The most
> > common
> > response was "Yes - I need to learn that." But several folks were already
> > further along and obviously excited about using it in their classes or
> > research.
> > So it would seem that Sage is no longer an unknown among the US collegiate
> > crowd but more folks need to take the plunge and start really exploring it.
>
> > Rob
>
> > grout-mathfest.jpg
> > 106KViewDownload
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