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
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.
