I got an email from the publisher today confirming the book on Sage has been
published, although the web site still says to be published in May 2011.
http://www.packtpub.com/sage-beginners-guide/book
Some fraction of sales will go to Sage, though I'm not sure what fraction, or if
there needs to be a minimum number of books sold first.
Having been a reviewer, I know the book address more numerical problems,
plotting and has nothing whatsoever to do with number theory, which is clearly
one of Sage's strongest points. There's a bit on using Maxima for symbolic
calculations.
We have a long way to go to get the number of books written about Sage as there
is for MATLAB or Mathematica. I think there are over 500 for Mathematica and
MATLAB must have many times that.
But I think it's useful to have a book written about Sage that not from William
or someone else at the uni of Washington. (That said, there are numerous points
in the book where a developer would know more. This problem is compounded
somewhat by the fact that some of the documentation on Sage is wrong. The
"install from source" section was very bad until recently, and as someone
mentioned, there's a lot of confusing references to VirtualBox and VMware, with
one bit of documentation recommending VirtualBox and the other VMware.
Anyway, I should have a copy of the book soon. I've not seen it in full yet, as
I've only seen drafts.
Dave
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