[sage-devel] Re: Review some tickets

2009-12-07 Thread Nathann Cohen
May I add that if you happen to be interested in Graph Theory, #7592 needs_reviewrlm 12/03/09 Flow method using LP #7593 needs_reviewrlm 12/03/09Matching using LP #7599 needs_reviewrlm 12/03/09vertex_cut and edge_cut ( minimum s-t cut ) #7601

[sage-devel] Review some tickets

2009-12-07 Thread William Stein
Hi, There are now 110 tickets that need review. See http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/report/30 for a nice list sorted by component. If you have some time and know how to referee tickets, please referee one. -- William -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University o

[sage-devel] Re: Mathematical Software and Me: A Very Personal Recollection

2009-12-07 Thread Kwankyu Lee
Thank you. The article reveals human sides of the origin of the inhumanly marvelous Sage project and its originator. Quite moving. Kwankyu -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups

Re: [sage-devel] Sage 4.3.alpha1 build failure on t2 SPARC Solaris 10 due to error building c_lib

2009-12-07 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Minh Nguyen wrote: > Hi folks, > > When building Sage 4.3.alpha1 on t2 (SPARC Solaris 10) with GCC 4.4.1 > and the Sun linker/assembler, the build failed. This time, it failed > when building c_lib. Here's a relevant error message snippet: > > CC: Warning: Option -fPIC passed to ld, if ld is invo

Re: [sage-devel] thesis and talk about Sage

2009-12-07 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Minh Nguyen wrote: > Hi folks, > > I have uploaded my BSc Honours thesis [1] to the Sage website. You can > also find my thesis at my website [2]. The Sage publications [3] page > has also been updated accordingly. It took me months to prepare the > document and get the work described therein into

[sage-devel] Re: Mathematical Software and Me: A Very Personal Recollection

2009-12-07 Thread mhampton
That was very interesting, thanks for posting it. -Marshall On Dec 7, 2:30 pm, William Stein wrote: > Hi, > > Paul Zimmermann asked me for a "brief history of Sage" to help inform > a talk he is going to give about Sage. I sat down to write such a > thing and instead ended up writing a long 16

Re: [sage-devel] thesis and talk about Sage

2009-12-07 Thread David Joyner
On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 7:38 PM, Minh Nguyen wrote: > Hi folks, > > I have uploaded my BSc Honours thesis [1] to the Sage website. You can > also find my thesis at my website [2]. The Sage publications [3] page Thanks for posting this Minh, I'm looking forward to printing this out and reading it!

Re: [sage-devel] thesis and talk about Sage

2009-12-07 Thread Dan Drake
On Tue, 08 Dec 2009 at 11:38AM +1100, Minh Nguyen wrote: > I have uploaded my BSc Honours thesis [1] to the Sage website. You can > also find my thesis at my website [2]. The Sage publications [3] page > has also been updated accordingly. It took me months to prepare the > document and get the work

[sage-devel] thesis and talk about Sage

2009-12-07 Thread Minh Nguyen
Hi folks, I have uploaded my BSc Honours thesis [1] to the Sage website. You can also find my thesis at my website [2]. The Sage publications [3] page has also been updated accordingly. It took me months to prepare the document and get the work described therein into the Sage library. And by the e

[sage-devel] Re: SageTex

2009-12-07 Thread Jason Grout
Dan Drake wrote: > On Mon, 07 Dec 2009 at 02:21PM -0800, William Stein wrote: >> Then, I'd say we have a winner! >> >> SageTex is going in: >> >> http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/7617 > > Just a couple hours before this message about SageTeX being accepted > into the main Sage distrib

Re: [sage-devel] SageTex

2009-12-07 Thread Dan Drake
On Mon, 07 Dec 2009 at 02:21PM -0800, William Stein wrote: > Then, I'd say we have a winner! > > SageTex is going in: > > http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/7617 Just a couple hours before this message about SageTeX being accepted into the main Sage distribution, I got an email about

Re: [sage-devel] SageTex

2009-12-07 Thread William Stein
2009/12/7 Dan Drake : > On Mon, 07 Dec 2009 at 01:29PM -0800, Craig Citro wrote: >> > +1 to SageTex >> > >> > +1 to 2 year maintenance commitment for new packages, though I think >> > this should be discussed in another thread >> > >> >> I'm also +1 on both of these, and on this general policy bein

Re: [sage-devel] SageTex

2009-12-07 Thread Dan Drake
On Mon, 07 Dec 2009 at 01:29PM -0800, Craig Citro wrote: > > +1 to SageTex > > > > +1 to 2 year maintenance commitment for new packages, though I think > > this should be discussed in another thread > > > > I'm also +1 on both of these, and on this general policy being > discussed in a new thread.

Re: [sage-devel] SageTex

2009-12-07 Thread Craig Citro
>> What do you guys think about doing something similar for new standard >> spkg's for Sage?   I think 5 years is too long, given how new Sage is. >>  1 year or 2 years might be more reasonable, given the youth of Sage. > > +1 to SageTex > > +1 to 2 year maintenance commitment for new packages, tho

[sage-devel] Re: Mathematical Software and Me: A Very Personal Recollection

2009-12-07 Thread Jaap Spies
William Stein wrote: > Hi, > > Paul Zimmermann asked me for a "brief history of Sage" to help inform > a talk he is going to give about Sage. I sat down to write such a > thing and instead ended up writing a long 16 page account of my > involvement in math software until about 2007, along with my

Re: [sage-devel] Mathematical Software and Me: A Very Personal Recollection

2009-12-07 Thread John Cremona
Very interesting! Luis is Luis Figuereido, who was a student of Richard Taylor when he was still in Cambridge (England!). He computed modular forms mod p over imaginary quadratic fields by adapting my code (the code for imaginary quadratic fields, of course!). He wrote the sparse matrix library

[sage-devel] Mathematical Software and Me: A Very Personal Recollection

2009-12-07 Thread William Stein
Hi, Paul Zimmermann asked me for a "brief history of Sage" to help inform a talk he is going to give about Sage. I sat down to write such a thing and instead ended up writing a long 16 page account of my involvement in math software until about 2007, along with my motivations for working on Sage.

[sage-devel] interactive 3d in PDF files

2009-12-07 Thread Jason Grout
In connection with the (hopeful) sagetex inclusion as a standard package: Do we have the ability to generate a U3D format for Graphics3d objects? If so, it would be extremely cool if we could automatically have interactive 3d plots within PDF files generated using SageTeX. See http://meshlab

[sage-devel] Maxima 5.20 about to be released

2009-12-07 Thread kcrisman
FYI: Message: 2 Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2009 08:51:12 -0700 From: Robert Dodier Subject: [Maxima] Maxima 5.20.0 release To: Maxima Mailing List Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Hello, I've built Maxima 5.20.0 rpms and tar.gz and posted them to the SF file manager. http

Re: [sage-devel] SageTex

2009-12-07 Thread Tom Boothby
> What do you guys think about doing something similar for new standard > spkg's for Sage?   I think 5 years is too long, given how new Sage is. >  1 year or 2 years might be more reasonable, given the youth of Sage. +1 to SageTex +1 to 2 year maintenance commitment for new packages, though I thi

Re: [sage-devel] SageTex

2009-12-07 Thread William Stein
2009/12/7 Robert Bradshaw : > On Dec 6, 2009, at 11:03 PM, William Stein wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I would like to propose that SageTex be made a standard Sage package. >> To install: >> >>   sage -i sagetex-2.1.1 >> >> And look here for a very nice paper about how to use SageTex. >> >>   http://tug.ct

Re: [sage-devel] SageTex

2009-12-07 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Dec 6, 2009, at 11:03 PM, William Stein wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to propose that SageTex be made a standard Sage package. > To install: > > sage -i sagetex-2.1.1 > > And look here for a very nice paper about how to use SageTex. > > http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/sagetex > > Dan Drake: "SageTe

Re: [sage-devel] SageTex

2009-12-07 Thread Bryan Wilcox
>  [X] Yes! -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org

[sage-devel] Re: new section "Sage HOWTOs" in standard documentation

2009-12-07 Thread mhampton
It would make sense to use the Sage Constructions sections as starting points for more in-depth tutorials. They do seem like somewhat seperate goals though - the constructions book is nice as an overview of some functionality, so its OK I think if some sections are quite short. I hope to contribu

Re: [sage-devel] Re: new section "Sage HOWTOs" in standard documentation

2009-12-07 Thread David Joyner
Please do revise and update and/or modify the Constructions document in any way you think is best! I personally like your idea of adding optional package tutorials there as well. Note however that optional packages can become standard, so hopefully the two types of packages would not be treated to

Re: [sage-devel] Re: new section "Sage HOWTOs" in standard documentation

2009-12-07 Thread Minh Nguyen
Hi kcrisman, On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 1:14 AM, kcrisman wrote: > I think this might have some commonality with several other projects - > the Sage cookbook, which wdj et al. did, and has since not (?) been > updated much, I see that the Sage Constructions document [1] serves a similar purpose to m

[sage-devel] Re: SageTex

2009-12-07 Thread kcrisman
On Dec 7, 9:15 am, Jason Grout wrote: > kcrisman wrote: > > +1 > > > BUT I think in that case there should be detailed documentation, in a > > very easy-to-find place (maybe at the SageTeX home or something), > > about how one can or cannot use it within the current VirtualBox setup > > for Wind

[sage-devel] Re: SageTex

2009-12-07 Thread mhampton
> > [X] Yes! > > [ ] No, it should stay an optional spkg for now (it has been one for a > while) of Washingtonhttp://wstein.org I cannot think of a reason this could be bad in any way. -Marshall -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from th

[sage-devel] Re: SageTex

2009-12-07 Thread Jason Grout
kcrisman wrote: > +1 > > BUT I think in that case there should be detailed documentation, in a > very easy-to-find place (maybe at the SageTeX home or something), > about how one can or cannot use it within the current VirtualBox setup > for Windows (I don't know if you can or not, so I will not b

[sage-devel] Re: new section "Sage HOWTOs" in standard documentation

2009-12-07 Thread kcrisman
I think this might have some commonality with several other projects - the Sage cookbook, which wdj et al. did, and has since not (?) been updated much, and the other project (Sage tutorials? something like that, but I can't find it on the wiki right now) which already had some significant content

[sage-devel] Re: SageTex

2009-12-07 Thread kcrisman
+1 BUT I think in that case there should be detailed documentation, in a very easy-to-find place (maybe at the SageTeX home or something), about how one can or cannot use it within the current VirtualBox setup for Windows (I don't know if you can or not, so I will not be writing this documentation

[sage-devel] new section "Sage HOWTOs" in standard documentation

2009-12-07 Thread Minh Nguyen
Hi folks, The Python standard documentation [1] has a section called "Python HOWTOs", which lists various in-depth documents on specific topics. I like to get people's comments on creating a new section in the Sage standard documentation [4] called "Sage HOWTOs". This new section can include docum

[sage-devel] Some bugs (?) in MPolynomialRing_polydict

2009-12-07 Thread Simon King
Hi! I tested some corner cases of MPolynomialRing_polydict and found the following: 1. sage: P. = ZZ['x'][] sage: P Univariate Polynomial Ring in x over Univariate Polynomial Ring in x over Integer Ring I think that name conflicts should give rise to raising an error. Or is there a reason

[sage-devel] Re: SageTex

2009-12-07 Thread Jason Grout
MaxTheMouse wrote: > I install this every time. Same here. [X] Yes! We briefly described the capabilities and showed a short example of what it could do to a bunch of people that were not very familiar with Sage this last weekend at the Education Day in Cambridge. One person remarked, in ef

Re: [sage-devel] Re: SageTex

2009-12-07 Thread Dan Drake
On Mon, 07 Dec 2009 at 12:40AM -0800, Nathann Cohen wrote: > Where could one see an example of what it can be used for in > Sage ? :-) It's not used for anything in Sage, it's used for things in your LaTeX files. :) You can download it from http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/sagetex/ and take a look at the

[sage-devel] Re: SageTex

2009-12-07 Thread Harald Schilly
On Dec 7, 8:03 am, William Stein wrote: >   [ √ ] Yes! -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel

Re: [sage-devel] SageTex

2009-12-07 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
William Stein wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to propose that SageTex be made a standard Sage package. > To install: > >sage -i sagetex-2.1.1 > > And look here for a very nice paper about how to use SageTex. > >http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/sagetex > > Dan Drake: "SageTeX is small, its inclusi

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Computing the Twin Prime Counting Function and a Twin Prime Class

2009-12-07 Thread John Cremona
Kevin, How about cross-posting this to sage-nt? John Cremona 2009/12/7 kstueve : > It might be interesting to compare the difference between prime_pi and > its logarithmic integral approximation and the difference between > twin_prime_pi and its logarithmic integral approximation.  How well > co

[sage-devel] Re: SageTex

2009-12-07 Thread Nathann Cohen
Where could one see an example of what it can be used for in Sage ? :-) Nathann On Dec 7, 8:49 am, Alex Ghitza wrote: > On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 11:03:08PM -0800, William Stein wrote: > > > Please vote: > >   [X] Yes! > > -- > Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne

Re: [sage-devel] Siegel modular forms and SAGE

2009-12-07 Thread Alex Ghitza
Hi David, I am ccing your original email and this reply directly to Nathan, since I don't know whether he reads sage-devel regularly. Here's what I know from watching this from the sidelines. Nils Skoruppa keeps a mercurial repository with the Siegel modular forms code. Last time I spoke to hi