[sage-devel] Re: Conway's nimber field

2007-03-19 Thread Michel
Yes the basic reference is ONAG. I will put a more precise reference in the source (but I need to go to the library to fetch ONAG). Basically the two rules for multiplying nimbers are (1) The product of any number of distinct Fermat powers is the ordinary product. (2) If f is a Fermat power then

[sage-devel] Re: Biopython package

2007-03-19 Thread William Stein
On Monday 19 March 2007 8:28 pm, Hamptonio wrote: > Hi, > > I became interested in SAGE after I found it to be the easiest way to > install cddlib and gmp, and now I am getting hooked. My research is > very schizophrenic: besides some computational algebra/geometry coming > from dynamical systems

[sage-devel] Biopython package

2007-03-19 Thread Hamptonio
Hi, I became interested in SAGE after I found it to be the easiest way to install cddlib and gmp, and now I am getting hooked. My research is very schizophrenic: besides some computational algebra/geometry coming from dynamical systems, I am also interested in mathematical biology and bioinforma

[sage-devel] Re: Summer of Code

2007-03-19 Thread Bill Page
On March 19, 2007 2:44 PM Bill Page wrote: > > Students of Sage might be interested in the Axiom/Sage project > supported by an Axiom sister organization (LispNYC) that has > been accepted for the Google Summer of Code program. Axiom had > a previous successful Summer of Code project that was fun

[sage-devel] Re: "dark days" ahead

2007-03-19 Thread Yi Qiang
Hi William, Perhaps you should put up a note on http://www.sagemath.org informing people to download from the mirrors instead of your home connection. I imagine it is going to get killed by anymore than 1 person downloading at a time :) On Mar 19, 2007, at 2:15 PM, William Stein wrote: >

[sage-devel] Fwd: Fwd: [sage-devel] Re: some ramblings about the relationship between sage and MAGMA

2007-03-19 Thread William Stein
-- Forwarded message -- From: that mathematician :-) >From Jason Martin: > Don't feel like you need to spend too much time defending Sage. I don't think you were defending it, just explaining it :-) And I certainly haven't ever managed a programming project of any size whatsoeve

[sage-devel] Re: some ramblings about the relationship between sage and MAGMA

2007-03-19 Thread Jason Martin
Don't feel like you need to spend too much time defending Sage. It speaks for itself. It's free, open source, and improving daily. And, even though I greatly admire "a top research mathematician who happens to write assembly code to find Hecke operators... now who might that be," I don't think

[sage-devel] "dark days" ahead

2007-03-19 Thread William Stein
Hi, sage.math will be turned off in about 1 hour. A few minutes ago, I backed up the hard drive to modular.math.washington.edu, so if you go to http://modular.math.washington.edu/home you'll get the latest version of people's home directories, at least if they are world readable (let me know

[sage-devel] Fwd: some ramblings about the relationship between sage and MAGMA

2007-03-19 Thread William Stein
-- Forwarded message -- From: William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mar 19, 2007 1:57 PM Subject: Re: some ramblings about the relationship between sage and MAGMA To: Research mathematician On 3/19/07, a Research Matheamtician wrote: > I think the reason that xxx found it [sage]

[sage-devel] Re: Group Algebras in GAP/SAGE

2007-03-19 Thread David Joyner
On 3/19/07, Mike Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Did you look at LAGUNA or UnitLib? > > Yeah, I looked at LAGUNA, and it wasn't exactly what I was looking > for. I guess I'm more interested in the looking at the group algebras > as K[G]-modules. If I understand correctly, the following i

[sage-devel] Re: Conway's nimber field

2007-03-19 Thread David Joyner
Are you using ONAG for the main reference? In any case, I would appreciate a precise reference to a book or article on nimbers. On 3/19/07, Michel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > To acquant myself with sage's inner workings I have implemented > Conway's nimber field. > See > > http://alpha

[sage-devel] Re: Group Algebras in GAP/SAGE

2007-03-19 Thread Mike Hansen
> Did you look at LAGUNA or UnitLib? Yeah, I looked at LAGUNA, and it wasn't exactly what I was looking for. I guess I'm more interested in the looking at the group algebras as K[G]-modules. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@go

[sage-devel] some ramblings about the relationship between sage and MAGMA

2007-03-19 Thread William Stein
On 3/19/07, a top research mathematician wrote: > put me off sage a bit: he tried it a year or so ago and > after a while he realised that he was actually just coding in python > rather than sage, and that magma seemed to be much quicker. Maybe this > has changed now though. How can sage over

[sage-devel] Re: Group Algebras in GAP/SAGE

2007-03-19 Thread David Kohel
Group algebras would be natural and interesting. I would suggest that they derive from FreeAlgebra, and improve those if the performance was inadequate. This gives a sparse representation, and as I remember, for finite dimensional (quotient) algebras, I use the explicit matrix representation on

[sage-devel] Summer of Code

2007-03-19 Thread Bill Page
Students of Sage might be interested in the Axiom/Sage project supported by an Axiom sister organization (LispNYC) that has been accepted for the Google Summer of Code program. Axiom had a previous successful Summer of Code project that was funded in a similar manner through LispNYC in the first S

[sage-devel] sage.math.washington.edu

2007-03-19 Thread William Stein
The famous sage.math.washington.edu is up until probably 5pm today. :-) -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this gr

[sage-devel] Conway's nimber field

2007-03-19 Thread Michel
Hi, To acquant myself with sage's inner workings I have implemented Conway's nimber field. See http://alpha.uhasselt.be/Research/Algebra/Members/nimbers/ Recall that the nimbers form a field whose underlying set is the natural numbers. The addition is bitwise exclusive or but the multiplication

[sage-devel] Re: Group Algebras in GAP/SAGE

2007-03-19 Thread David Joyner
On 3/19/07, Mike Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I guess this is mostly directed toward David Joyner, but if anyone > else knows, feel free to chime in. I've been trying to figure out the > best way to do calculations in a group ring or group algebra. I've > checked around for GAP packages

[sage-devel] Re: Group Algebras in GAP/SAGE

2007-03-19 Thread William Stein
On 3/19/07, David Harvey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mar 19, 2007, at 9:58 AM, Mike Hansen wrote: > > I guess this is mostly directed toward David Joyner, but if anyone > > else knows, feel free to chime in. I've been trying to figure out the > > best way to do calculations in a group ring or

[sage-devel] Re: Inconsistency in root finding

2007-03-19 Thread William Stein
On 3/19/07, Mike Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > : unhashable type: > > 'sage.rings.complex_number.ComplexNumber' > > You should be able to just add the following to the ComplexNumber class: > > def __hash__(self): > return str(self).__hash__() > > That should work so long as the complex

[sage-devel] Re: Group Algebras in GAP/SAGE

2007-03-19 Thread David Harvey
On Mar 19, 2007, at 9:58 AM, Mike Hansen wrote: > I guess this is mostly directed toward David Joyner, but if anyone > else knows, feel free to chime in. I've been trying to figure out the > best way to do calculations in a group ring or group algebra. I've > checked around for GAP packages, b

[sage-devel] Re: SAGE on the BBC

2007-03-19 Thread Mike Hansen
That's really awesome -- I didn't realize they used SAGE. Representation theory represent :) --Mike On 3/19/07, David Harvey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6466129.stm > > It's an article about the recent calculation of the character table > of E8, which

[sage-devel] SAGE on the BBC

2007-03-19 Thread David Harvey
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6466129.stm It's an article about the recent calculation of the character table of E8, which was done on sage.math... here's how the BBC put it: "Conceptualising, designing and running the calculations took a team of 19 mathematicians four years. The

[sage-devel] Group Algebras in GAP/SAGE

2007-03-19 Thread Mike Hansen
I guess this is mostly directed toward David Joyner, but if anyone else knows, feel free to chime in. I've been trying to figure out the best way to do calculations in a group ring or group algebra. I've checked around for GAP packages, but they seem to be pretty limited and very awkward to use.

[sage-devel] [Fwd: Re: [SciPy-user] from maple to scipy/numpy]

2007-03-19 Thread David Joyner
Hello all: Has anyone here heard of pydx? - David Joyner --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google

[sage-devel] Re: Inconsistency in root finding

2007-03-19 Thread Mike Hansen
> While working on the patch, I came across another problem, one that I > don't want to fix. > > sage: D = {} ; D[CC(0)] = 1 > --- > Traceback (most recent call > last) > > /Users/nalexand/emacs/sage/ in () > > :

[sage-devel] Re: Inconsistency in root finding

2007-03-19 Thread Nick Alexander
While working on the patch, I came across another problem, one that I don't want to fix. sage: D = {} ; D[CC(0)] = 1 --- Traceback (most recent call last) /Users/nalexand/emacs/sage/ in () : unhashable type: 's