[sage-devel] Re: example of a Mathematica program from my lecture

2007-12-21 Thread Ted Kosan
William wrote: > MISSION STATEMENT: Provide as soon as possible a viable free > open source alternative to Maple, Mathematica, Magma, and Matlab. When I read this mission statement, what doesn't come to mind is trying to convince people who are currently using these applications to switch to S

[sage-devel] Sage-2.9.1.alpha3

2007-12-21 Thread Robert Miller
is here: http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/rlmill/sage-2.9.1.alpha3.tar summary: alpha3: #668 - Michael Abshoff - numerical noise doctest in calculus.py #670 - Michael Abshoff - numerical noise doctest in piecewise.py #924 - William Stein - the matplotlib spkg patches break underlying fu

[sage-devel] Re: example of a Mathematica program from my lecture

2007-12-21 Thread mabshoff
On Dec 22, 12:57 am, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well, that is how you see Sage, but having a local development > > environment is something I would see happening sooner or later. Sage > > should work in a way the users wants it to and for many people that > > means a local inst

[sage-devel] Re: example of a Mathematica program from my lecture

2007-12-21 Thread mabshoff
Hi Harald, I am answering your post last because it will take the most time :) On Dec 21, 5:18 pm, Harald Schilly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi, I'm not a developer, just interested in sage, i don't speak for > the development team - I only wanted to point out that there is this > unique possi

[sage-devel] Re: example of a Mathematica program from my lecture

2007-12-21 Thread William Stein
> On Dec 21, 10:49 pm, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Should we view Sage primarily as software in the traditional sense > > of a local binary install with a GUI, or as software in the more > > web-based community sense? I view Sage as being more > > of the latter rather than the

[sage-devel] Re: example of a Mathematica program from my lecture

2007-12-21 Thread Harald Schilly
On Dec 21, 10:49 pm, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Given the impressive success of browser-based > community software in recent years, ... > we should focus mainly on how the end result will work, rather than anything > about the underlying technology. Yes, i see it the same way

[sage-devel] Re: example of a Mathematica program from my lecture

2007-12-21 Thread mabshoff
On Dec 21, 10:49 pm, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Wow, this is quite a thread! Here's the current version of the evolving > mission statement I have for Sage: > > MISSION STATEMENT: Povide as soon as possible a viable free > open source alternative to Maple, Mathematic

[sage-devel] Re: example of a Mathematica program from my lecture

2007-12-21 Thread mabshoff
On Dec 21, 9:44 pm, "Fabio Tonti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just to give my point of view: (I'm not taking part in development at > the moment either) > A native windows port seems like a good idea, iff there are people > willing to do it and iff it won't take any ressources from other parts

[sage-devel] Re: example of a Mathematica program from my lecture

2007-12-21 Thread mabshoff
On Dec 21, 6:27 pm, "Joel B. Mohler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 10:45:06AM -0500, David Harvey wrote: > > (4) I wonder if it's possible for the Sage foundation to set up a > > server and buy a small number of windows licenses for remote access. > > Say like 4 licenses,

[sage-devel] Re: example of a Mathematica program from my lecture

2007-12-21 Thread mabshoff
On Dec 21, 3:46 pm, David Harvey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 21, 2007, at 9:27 AM, Joel B. Mohler wrote: > > > > > On Friday 21 December 2007 08:42, David Harvey wrote: > >> I've said it before and I'll say it again: if someone can make > >> working on windows as easy and legal for me as

[sage-devel] Re: build failures on Ubuntu and RHEL

2007-12-21 Thread mabshoff
Hi noo, On Dec 21, 6:48 pm, noo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Updated gcc, g++ to 4.2.1. Still failed to build linbox due to gcc > internal error, > same as with the 4.1.3. I'll continue to try with yet newer versions > of gcc. This sounds like wonky hardware to me, probably memory related. Dur

[sage-devel] Re: Mathematica licensing questions

2007-12-21 Thread William Stein
On Dec 21, 2007 3:01 PM, Justin C. Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Dec 21, 2007, at 13:50 , William Stein wrote: > > On Dec 21, 2007 2:25 PM, Justin C. Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Dec 21, 2007, at 12:51 , William Stein wrote: > [snip] > >>> That very surprising. This mean

[sage-devel] Re: Mathematica licensing questions

2007-12-21 Thread Justin C. Walker
On Dec 21, 2007, at 13:50 , William Stein wrote: > On Dec 21, 2007 2:25 PM, Justin C. Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Dec 21, 2007, at 12:51 , William Stein wrote: [snip] >>> That very surprising. This means that I can't sit down at my home >>> computer, >>> ssh into the UW math departme

[sage-devel] Re: Mathematica licensing questions

2007-12-21 Thread William Stein
On Dec 21, 2007 2:25 PM, Justin C. Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Dec 21, 2007, at 12:51 , William Stein wrote: > > On Dec 21, 2007 9:43 AM, Jason Grout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > >> (cross-posting because the thread originally appeared on sage- > >> support, > >> but the topic s

[sage-devel] Re: example of a Mathematica program from my lecture

2007-12-21 Thread William Stein
Hi, Wow, this is quite a thread! Here's the current version of the evolving mission statement I have for Sage: MISSION STATEMENT: Povide as soon as possible a viable free open source alternative to Maple, Mathematica, Magma, and Matlab. Since all of the above Ma* programs run well on MS Win

[sage-devel] Re: Mathematica licensing questions

2007-12-21 Thread Justin C. Walker
On Dec 21, 2007, at 12:51 , William Stein wrote: > On Dec 21, 2007 9:43 AM, Jason Grout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> (cross-posting because the thread originally appeared on sage- >> support, >> but the topic seems interesting to sage-devel) >> >> As William suggested in the thread >> http:

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: [sage-newbie] Integer points on Elliptic Curves

2007-12-21 Thread John Cremona
Good point Nils - I had completely forgotten that this is the way integral points used to be found. John On 21/12/2007, Nils Bruin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Dec 18, 3:35 am, "John Cremona" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The only implementations I know of are in > > SiMath (now defunct) a

[sage-devel] Re: Mathematica licensing questions

2007-12-21 Thread Joel B. Mohler
On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 01:51:37PM -0700, William Stein wrote: > > * With a site license, accessing Mathematica functionality remotely is > > permitted so long as the originating computer is eligible to have > > Mathematica installed under the same site license. > > That very surprising. This me

[sage-devel] Re: Mathematica licensing questions

2007-12-21 Thread William Stein
On Dec 21, 2007 9:43 AM, Jason Grout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (cross-posting because the thread originally appeared on sage-support, > but the topic seems interesting to sage-devel) > > As William suggested in the thread > http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support/browse_thread/thread/869d28

[sage-devel] Re: example of a Mathematica program from my lecture

2007-12-21 Thread Fabio Tonti
Just to give my point of view: (I'm not taking part in development at the moment either) A native windows port seems like a good idea, iff there are people willing to do it and iff it won't take any ressources from other parts of the project. I'm sure a port would also increase the overall quality

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: [sage-newbie] Integer points on Elliptic Curves

2007-12-21 Thread Nils Bruin
On Dec 18, 3:35 am, "John Cremona" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The only implementations I know of are in > SiMath (now defunct) and Magma, but it has been suggested as a good > project for a Masters student to reimplement it in Sage, and someone > might be doing that. KANT/KASH (http://www.math.

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: [sage-newbie] Integer points on Elliptic Curves

2007-12-21 Thread William Stein
On Dec 21, 2007 10:36 AM, bill.p <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > John, > I know about the GPL, but I always like to ask first! :-) > > I had downloaded the binary-only version, and found the .spkg file, > but it's been replaced with a short > text which says that it's just there as a place-holder.

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 2.9.1.alpha2

2007-12-21 Thread William Stein
On Dec 21, 2007 11:27 AM, Robert Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > What needs to happen to go from 2.9.1.alpha2 to a release > > > candidate and a release? > > Also, we *really* need to update COPYING.txt to reflect the new > packages. Yes, for ATLAS and R. Anyway, I built alpha2 on a bu

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 2.9.1.alpha2

2007-12-21 Thread Robert Miller
> > What needs to happen to go from 2.9.1.alpha2 to a release > > candidate and a release? Also, we *really* need to update COPYING.txt to reflect the new packages. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscrib

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: [sage-newbie] Integer points on Elliptic Curves

2007-12-21 Thread John Cremona
ok, sorry about the factor of 100. Ask me if you want to know how the code works (but it is not easy). I just spent a large number of hours tracking down an error revealed by valgrind (accessing unintialized memory) which turned out to be a question of replacing < by <= in one loop. John On 21

[sage-devel] Mathematica licensing questions

2007-12-21 Thread Jason Grout
(cross-posting because the thread originally appeared on sage-support, but the topic seems interesting to sage-devel) As William suggested in the thread http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support/browse_thread/thread/869d28652835e50/85f6a02f7a1d82a8?lnk=gst&q=license+agreement#85f6a02f7a1d82a8

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 2.9.1.alpha2

2007-12-21 Thread John Cremona
Re #1130: (point counting on elliptic curves) The current patch contains incorrect code, as discussed earlier. However the unpatched function now in Sage is mainly fine for prime fields since it uses either pari or the fancy sea code depending on the field size. Secondly, for curves defined over

[sage-devel] Re: Notebook listing usernames

2007-12-21 Thread Justin C. Walker
On Dec 20, 2007, at 21:58 , William Stein wrote: > > On Dec 20, 2007 10:57 PM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Dec 20, 2007 6:24 PM, Robert Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> As pointed out by Michael Abshoff, it seems like an information leak >>> to list all the usernames

[sage-devel] Re: build failures on Ubuntu and RHEL

2007-12-21 Thread noo
Updated gcc, g++ to 4.2.1. Still failed to build linbox due to gcc internal error, same as with the 4.1.3. I'll continue to try with yet newer versions of gcc. In the meantime, I did get a successful build on another system (Intel Core 2 Quad) with Ubuntu 7.10 and gcc/g++ 4.2.1. So I have a plac

[sage-devel] another problem with modular symbols over finite fields

2007-12-21 Thread Alex Ghitza
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, There are instances in which Sage thinks that a one-dimensional space of modular symbols is not simple, and it decomposes the space into a one-dimensional and a zero-dimensional subspace: sage: C=ModularSymbols(1,14,0,GF(5)).cuspidal_submodule(

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: [sage-newbie] Integer points on Elliptic Curves

2007-12-21 Thread bill.p
John, I know about the GPL, but I always like to ask first! :-) I had downloaded the binary-only version, and found the .spkg file, but it's been replaced with a short text which says that it's just there as a place-holder. I've downloaded the full source now, thank goodness I'm on broadband. Yo

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 2.9.1.alpha2

2007-12-21 Thread Robert Miller
> What needs to happen to go from 2.9.1.alpha2 to a release > candidate and a release? > > -- William 1. I would like to get patches in for all the critical tickets. In particular, I'd like to see #1366 fixed up. 2. The following tickets could use review: #1130, #1155, #1371, #1413, #1418, #144

[sage-devel] Re: example of a Mathematica program from my lecture

2007-12-21 Thread Joel B. Mohler
On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 10:45:06AM -0500, David Harvey wrote: > (4) I wonder if it's possible for the Sage foundation to set up a > server and buy a small number of windows licenses for remote access. > Say like 4 licenses, so only four people can be logged in at a time. > Maybe that's a cos

[sage-devel] example of a Mathematica program from my lecture

2007-12-21 Thread Alex Ghitza
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, In response to Harald's and Michael's (very enlightening!) posts, I want to say a few words about educational use of Sage, from a slightly different point of view. I'm teaching mathematics at Colby College, a four-year liberal arts undergraduate

[sage-devel] Re: example of a Mathematica program from my lecture

2007-12-21 Thread Ondrej Certik
> > > > The vast majority of users on the desktop use Windows and do not have > > access to Linux or OSX. > > The vast majority of users on the desktop give a damn of calculating > anything!! ;) Well, yes, but all people I know of that use Mathematica use Windows on the desktop. Those are kinds o

[sage-devel] Re: example of a Mathematica program from my lecture

2007-12-21 Thread Harald Schilly
hi, I'm not a developer, just interested in sage, i don't speak for the development team - I only wanted to point out that there is this unique possibility of a webinterface which would make it somewhat easier. On Dec 21, 1:18 pm, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED] dortmund.de> wrote: > [begin rant] Wel

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: [sage-newbie] Integer points on Elliptic Curves

2007-12-21 Thread John Cremona
On 21/12/2007, bill.p <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > John, > I'm interested in doing some work in this. I've just had a test run > of > point-search and would like to look at the source if that's OK. Of course it is ok -- open source means open source! > The version of Sage I installed doesn't i

[sage-devel] Re: example of a Mathematica program from my lecture

2007-12-21 Thread David Harvey
On Dec 21, 2007, at 10:16 AM, Joel B. Mohler wrote: >> So you mean, the only way to do it is that someone buys some big >> license from Microsoft which allows multi-user remote access? Pricing >> is (number of users) * (price per license)? > > That is my impression -- I don't know if the price p

[sage-devel] Re: example of a Mathematica program from my lecture

2007-12-21 Thread Joel B. Mohler
On Friday 21 December 2007 09:46, David Harvey wrote: > On Dec 21, 2007, at 9:27 AM, Joel B. Mohler wrote: > > On Friday 21 December 2007 08:42, David Harvey wrote: > >> I've said it before and I'll say it again: if someone can make > >> working on windows as easy and legal for me as "ssh sage.mat

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: [sage-newbie] Integer points on Elliptic Curves

2007-12-21 Thread bill.p
John, I'm interested in doing some work in this. I've just had a test run of point-search and would like to look at the source if that's OK. The version of Sage I installed doesn't include the source so I thought I'd look on the Sage website, but can't locate it there either. Am I looking in the w

[sage-devel] Re: example of a Mathematica program from my lecture

2007-12-21 Thread David Harvey
On Dec 21, 2007, at 9:27 AM, Joel B. Mohler wrote: > > On Friday 21 December 2007 08:42, David Harvey wrote: >> I've said it before and I'll say it again: if someone can make >> working on windows as easy and legal for me as "ssh sage.math", then >> I would probably be able to find some time to

[sage-devel] Re: example of a Mathematica program from my lecture

2007-12-21 Thread Joel B. Mohler
On Friday 21 December 2007 08:42, David Harvey wrote: > I've said it before and I'll say it again: if someone can make   > working on windows as easy and legal for me as "ssh sage.math", then   > I would probably be able to find some time to help out. If this can   > be made to happen then I think

[sage-devel] Re: example of a Mathematica program from my lecture

2007-12-21 Thread David Harvey
On Dec 21, 2007, at 7:18 AM, mabshoff wrote: >> But please don't forget, sage is about open source - and windows is >> the complete opposite. > > [begin rant] Well, we support OSX, too, and that isn't exactly Open > Source either. While Apple itself is somewhat more friendly to the > Open Source

[sage-devel] Re: example of a Mathematica program from my lecture

2007-12-21 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Dec 21, 2007 1:18 PM, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Dec 21, 11:56 am, harald schilly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Dec 20, 9:39 pm, "Ondrej Certik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > If Michael and others succeed in a native Windows port, needing just > > > couple hundreds MB

[sage-devel] Re: latex functions in SAGE?

2007-12-21 Thread harald schilly
try latex? for help about this command! works for formulas (attention, x1 is x_{1} .. there was a discussion ...) and matrices - which are presented in a tab environment. i don't know if this works for pictures, but this should not be hard, too. h --~--~-~--~~~---~--~-

[sage-devel] Re: latex functions in SAGE?

2007-12-21 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Dec 21, 2007 1:35 PM, David Joyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi: > I wonder what SAGE developers think of the following idea: > to include in SAGE some functions which make the > creation of latex structures easier (for the purpose of > writing papers, etc). I'm thinking of two things: > (

[sage-devel] latex functions in SAGE?

2007-12-21 Thread David Joyner
Hi: I wonder what SAGE developers think of the following idea: to include in SAGE some functions which make the creation of latex structures easier (for the purpose of writing papers, etc). I'm thinking of two things: (a) outputting a tabular environment (with options for left, center, right justi

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 2.9.1.alpha2

2007-12-21 Thread mabshoff
On Dec 21, 11:56 am, Jaap Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > William Stein wrote: > > On Dec 20, 2007 7:30 PM, Robert Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Sage 2.9.1 alpha2 is out, available at: > > >>http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/rlmill/sage-2.9.1.alpha2.tar > > On Fedora 7 32 bits: H

[sage-devel] Re: example of a Mathematica program from my lecture

2007-12-21 Thread mabshoff
On Dec 21, 11:56 am, harald schilly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 20, 9:39 pm, "Ondrej Certik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > If Michael and others succeed in a native Windows port, needing just > > couple hundreds MB, then Sage > > will be a killer app. > Hi, > But please don't forget,

[sage-devel] Re: example of a Mathematica program from my lecture

2007-12-21 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Dec 21, 2007 11:56 AM, harald schilly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Dec 20, 9:39 pm, "Ondrej Certik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > If Michael and others succeed in a native Windows port, needing just > > couple hundreds MB, then Sage > > will be a killer app. > > But please don't for

[sage-devel] Re: example of a Mathematica program from my lecture

2007-12-21 Thread harald schilly
On Dec 20, 9:39 pm, "Ondrej Certik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If Michael and others succeed in a native Windows port, needing just > couple hundreds MB, then Sage > will be a killer app. But please don't forget, sage is about open source - and windows is the complete opposite. Supporting al

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 2.9.1.alpha2

2007-12-21 Thread Jaap Spies
William Stein wrote: > On Dec 20, 2007 7:30 PM, Robert Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Sage 2.9.1 alpha2 is out, available at: >> >> http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/rlmill/sage-2.9.1.alpha2.tar > On Fedora 7 32 bits:

[sage-devel] Re: plotting vectors

2007-12-21 Thread Jason Grout
William Stein wrote: > On Dec 19, 2007 12:24 PM, Jason Grout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I'm teaching linear algebra next semester and plan to use Sage. In >> trying the "obvious" way to plot a vector: >> >> sage: v=vector([1,2]) >> sage: v.plot().show() >> >> I get what looks like a step funct

[sage-devel] Re: notebook graphics out of order

2007-12-21 Thread William Stein
On Dec 21, 2007 1:47 AM, Jason Grout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I ran across the following problem today. In a notebook cell, I have > > from sage.plot.plot3d.all import Sphere > Sphere(1).show() > plot(x^3,xmin=0,xmax=1).show() > > and the plot comes up first and the sphere shows second (on

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 2.9.1.alpha2

2007-12-21 Thread mabshoff
On Dec 21, 3:30 am, Robert Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sage 2.9.1 alpha2 is out, available at: > > http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/rlmill/sage-2.9.1.alpha2.tar > > Closed tickets: > alpha2: > #1064 - Robert Miller - permutation __call__ type check > #1175 - Michael Abshoff - circula

[sage-devel] notebook graphics out of order

2007-12-21 Thread Jason Grout
I ran across the following problem today. In a notebook cell, I have from sage.plot.plot3d.all import Sphere Sphere(1).show() plot(x^3,xmin=0,xmax=1).show() and the plot comes up first and the sphere shows second (on my 850 Mhz PIII running ubuntu 7.10). This is confusing, especially when ther

[sage-devel] Re: Notebook listing usernames

2007-12-21 Thread Jason Grout
Ondrej Certik wrote: > On Dec 21, 2007 9:33 AM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Dec 20, 2007 11:33 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> That was my initial reaction, too. In a closed system, it makes sense -- >>> for the public notebook, it doesn't immediately seem like such a bad t

[sage-devel] Re: Notebook listing usernames

2007-12-21 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Dec 21, 2007 9:33 AM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Dec 20, 2007 11:33 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > That was my initial reaction, too. In a closed system, it makes sense -- > > for the public notebook, it doesn't immediately seem like such a bad thing, > > but it

[sage-devel] Re: Notebook listing usernames

2007-12-21 Thread William Stein
On Dec 20, 2007 11:33 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That was my initial reaction, too. In a closed system, it makes sense -- > for the public notebook, it doesn't immediately seem like such a bad thing, > but it lends to a scary attack. > > Robert makes an account on the public notebook. >