[sage-devel] numerical computing (Documentation Quality Initiative)

2008-11-10 Thread Minh Nguyen
Hi folks, Browsing through the directory sage-3.1.4/devel/doc-main/overviews/numerical_sage I notice that Josh Kantor has written a document on numerical computing using Sage. Still excited about Harald Schilly's Documentation Quality Initiative (DQI), I'd like to update and polish Josh's notes

[sage-devel] Re: numerical computing (Documentation Quality Initiative)

2008-11-10 Thread Mike Hansen
Hello, On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 10:17 PM, Minh Nguyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If the above document on numerical computing is covered by CC 3.0 or a > compatible license, then I'd be glad to work on it for the DQI. However, > would future source releases of Sage continue to ship that document

[sage-devel] Re: [sage-combinat-devel] Categories for the working programmer

2008-11-10 Thread Bill Page
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 12:50 AM, Mike Hansen wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 9:31 PM, Bill Page wrote: >> ... >> It seems to me that of all the existing computer algebra systems, >> because of it's strong and often pedantic type system, Axiom >> seems most compatible with taking category theor

[sage-devel] Re: [sage-combinat-devel] Categories for the working programmer

2008-11-10 Thread Mike Hansen
Hi Bill, On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 9:31 PM, Bill Page <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The current design should leave the door open for those who will >> want to do category theory (i.e. calculations on the categories >> themselves), rather than using them to organize generic code which >> is my own

[sage-devel] Re: [sage-combinat-devel] Categories for the working programmer

2008-11-10 Thread Bill Page
Warning: This email consists mostly of a "rant" on category theory, computer algebra, and a comparison of implementations that is somewhat tangential to the main subject. >> On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 8:14 PM, Bill Page wrote: >> >> The Sage concept of 'parent' is an attempt to capture similar >> >>

[sage-devel] Re: Categories for the working programmer

2008-11-10 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Nov 9, 2008, at 7:31 AM, Nicolas M. Thiery wrote: > Dear Sage developers, > >> On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 8:14 PM, Bill Page >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The Sage concept of 'parent' is an attempt to capture similar generic relationships that are represented by categorie

[sage-devel] Re: Categories for the working programmer

2008-11-10 Thread koffie
> sage: C = VectorSpaces(GF(5)) > sage: C > Category of vector spaces over Finite Field of size 5 > sage: W = (ZZ^3).span([[1,2,3],[4,5,3]]) > sage: W > > Free module of degree 3 and rank 2 over Integer Ring > Echelon basis matrix: > [1 2 3] > [0 3 9] > sage: C(W) > > Vector space of degree 3 and

[sage-devel] Re: [sage-support] Re: problems with implicit_multiplication

2008-11-10 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Nov 9, 2008, at 3:32 PM, William Stein wrote: > On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 3:07 PM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 2:04 PM, Justin C. Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> On Nov 9, 2008, at 13:27 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> Hell

[sage-devel] Re: Automated installation on OS X

2008-11-10 Thread koffie
I uploaded it. You can find it now at http://www.math.leidenuniv.nl/~mderickx/Install_Sage.zip. Kind Regards On Nov 10, 1:27 am, koffie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So, after getting us all exited could you describe what you did? > > To describe it a bit more precise, it is just a small work

[sage-devel] Re: video from sage days 11

2008-11-10 Thread Ronan Paixão
Em Seg, 2008-11-10 às 01:14 -0200, Pablo De Napoli escreveu: > Hi, > > I've tried to watch at the videos on Linux using vlc, xine and mplayer but I > failed. At least the first video I downloaded (the second one) I was able to play in mplayer, xine, vlc and totem (though with some speed issues

[sage-devel] Re: video from sage days 11

2008-11-10 Thread Pablo De Napoli
> > I've tried to watch at the videos on Linux using vlc, xine and > > mplayer but I > > failed. Here are the error messages when running vlc craig_citro.mov on Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy): VLC media player 0.8.6e Janus [0304] mp4 demuxer error: MP4 plugin discarded (no moov box) [0283] mai

[sage-devel] Re: calling symbolic expressions, was: Why Sage needs var(...) commands unlike Mathematica?

2008-11-10 Thread Stan Schymanski
Robert Bradshaw wrote: > > [snip] > > I would propose that *single variable* expressions behave like > callables in one variable, there is no ambiguity as to the ordering, > so one should be able to call, integrate, differentiate, plot, etc. > with them without having to specify the variabl