[sage-devel] Re: Sage on Wikipedia

2009-06-27 Thread Jaap Spies
William Stein wrote: > On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 4:05 PM, Dr. David > Kirkby wrote: >> William Stein wrote: >> > Cheers, > Simon Unix is tricky, as Solaris works, on some machines, but is not fully supported. (To be precise about this, one needs a definition of 'support'). >>>

[sage-devel] Re: Sage on Wikipedia

2009-06-27 Thread William Stein
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 4:05 PM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > > William Stein wrote: > Cheers,      Simon >>> Unix is tricky, as Solaris works, on some machines, but is not fully >>> supported. (To be precise about this, one needs a definition of 'support'). >> >> Sage works on OS X, and OS

[sage-devel] Re: Sage on Wikipedia

2009-06-26 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Skylar Saveland wrote: >> * A collection of databases of mathematical, scientific, and >> socio-economic information (see below) > > Man, that would be neat to have data like that at your fingertips with > a sage interface and R and Python backing you up. (and not having to > work to hard to

[sage-devel] Re: Sage on Wikipedia

2009-06-26 Thread William Stein
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Skylar Saveland wrote: > >>     * A collection of databases of mathematical, scientific, and >> socio-economic information (see below) > > Man, that would be neat to have data like that at your fingertips with > a sage interface and R and Python backing you up.  (

[sage-devel] Re: Sage on Wikipedia

2009-06-26 Thread Skylar Saveland
> * A collection of databases of mathematical, scientific, and > socio-economic information (see below) Man, that would be neat to have data like that at your fingertips with a sage interface and R and Python backing you up. (and not having to work to hard to have to configure the interface

[sage-devel] Re: Sage on Wikipedia

2009-06-25 Thread Harald Schilly
On Jun 25, 10:39 pm, Utpal Sarkar wrote: > The link to the sage tutorial from the knol article seems to be broken > thx, fixed. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to

[sage-devel] Re: Sage on Wikipedia

2009-06-25 Thread Utpal Sarkar
The link to the sage tutorial from the knol article seems to be broken On Jun 24, 7:19 pm, Harald Schilly wrote: > On Jun 24, 6:16 pm, Robert Bradshaw > wrote: > > > I'll second this. Wikipedia is the highest source of traffic for   > > Cython after google and people typing in cython.org direc

[sage-devel] Re: Sage on Wikipedia

2009-06-25 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
William Stein wrote: >>> Cheers, >>> Simon >> Unix is tricky, as Solaris works, on some machines, but is not fully >> supported. (To be precise about this, one needs a definition of 'support'). > > Sage works on OS X, and OS X has been officially certified to be "UNIX". There is a separate

[sage-devel] Re: Sage on Wikipedia

2009-06-25 Thread William Stein
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 1:06 PM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > > Simon King wrote: >> Hi >> >> On Jun 24, 8:33 pm, kcrisman wrote: >>> A related page to look at would >>> behttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_computer_algebra_systems > > I updated that somewhat, expanded the description simil

[sage-devel] Re: Sage on Wikipedia

2009-06-25 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Simon King wrote: > Hi > > On Jun 24, 8:33 pm, kcrisman wrote: >> A related page to look at would >> behttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_computer_algebra_systems I updated that somewhat, expanded the description similar to that for Mathematica. I removed the 'Boolean Computation' whi

[sage-devel] Re: Sage on Wikipedia

2009-06-25 Thread Jason Grout
William Stein wrote: > >> * Tools for image processing [5] > > yes, in pylab, plus also there is the Python Imagining Library. (PIL) > Also, don't forget openCV (http://code.google.com/p/ctypes-opencv/, for example). There are also a few other references to using openCV with numpy. N

[sage-devel] Re: Sage on Wikipedia

2009-06-24 Thread Simon King
Hi On Jun 24, 8:33 pm, kcrisman wrote: > A related page to look at would > behttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_computer_algebra_systems It is stated on that page that Sage does not support Unix. Is that really the case? Also it is stated that it does not support Windows. Well, not na

[sage-devel] Re: Sage on Wikipedia

2009-06-24 Thread Jason Grout
William Stein wrote: >> * Constrained and unconstrained local and global optimization > Yes, in scipy. See http://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/reference/optimize.html > >> * Support for complex number, arbitrary precision and symbolic >> computation for all functions > > "all functions

[sage-devel] Re: Sage on Wikipedia

2009-06-24 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
kcrisman wrote: > > A related page to look at would be > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_computer_algebra_systems > Note that Mma is declared there to be "ubiquitous" while Maple only > notes its libraries' sources are viewable. Our friends at Axiom even > link from there to a video!

[sage-devel] Re: Sage on Wikipedia

2009-06-24 Thread kcrisman
A related page to look at would be http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_computer_algebra_systems Note that Mma is declared there to be "ubiquitous" while Maple only notes its libraries' sources are viewable. Our friends at Axiom even link from there to a video! - kcrisman --~--~-

[sage-devel] Re: Sage on Wikipedia

2009-06-24 Thread William Stein
2009/6/24 Dr. David Kirkby : > > Dr. David Kirkby wrote: >> I think we should really make some effort to improve our page on Wikipedia. > > > OK, based on some input from others, and what I found with Google, I > have revised the 'Features* section somewhat (and only the Features to > date). > > T

[sage-devel] Re: Sage on Wikipedia

2009-06-24 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > I think we should really make some effort to improve our page on Wikipedia. OK, based on some input from others, and what I found with Google, I have revised the 'Features* section somewhat (and only the Features to date). The current page is here (this might include

[sage-devel] Re: Sage on Wikipedia

2009-06-24 Thread Harald Schilly
On Jun 24, 6:16 pm, Robert Bradshaw wrote: > I'll second this. Wikipedia is the highest source of traffic for   > Cython after google and people typing in cython.org directly (despite   > an only average page)--I wouldn't be surprised if it accounts for a   > significant proportion of potential a

[sage-devel] Re: Sage on Wikipedia

2009-06-24 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Jun 23, 2009, at 6:15 PM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > I think we should really make some effort to improve our page on > Wikipedia. I'll second this. Wikipedia is the highest source of traffic for Cython after google and people typing in cython.org directly (despite an only average page)-

[sage-devel] Re: Sage on Wikipedia

2009-06-24 Thread John Cremona
I think Sage does have at least one mathematical database (in fact more than one...) ! John 2009/6/24 kcrisman : > >> > * Solvers for systems of equations, ODEs, PDEs, DAEs, DDEs and >> > recurrence relations >> >> no clue >> > > perhaps desolve and friends? > >> > * Numeric and symbolic

[sage-devel] Re: Sage on Wikipedia

2009-06-24 Thread kcrisman
> >     * Solvers for systems of equations, ODEs, PDEs, DAEs, DDEs and > > recurrence relations > > no clue > perhaps desolve and friends? > >     * Numeric and symbolic tools for discrete and continuous calculus > > yes.  I don't know what "discrete calculus" means. Probably this means differe

[sage-devel] Re: Sage on Wikipedia

2009-06-24 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 3:15 AM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > > I think we should really make some effort to improve our page on Wikipedia. > > Comparing the Sage and Mathematica pages on Wikipedia shows the > Mathematica one is much nicer. Would it not be sensible to put some > effort into promoting

[sage-devel] Re: Sage on Wikipedia

2009-06-23 Thread Dan Drake
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 at 02:15AM +0100, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > I think we should really make some effort to improve our page on > Wikipedia. I'm not sure if I can really help with this, but I agree that "cultivating" our Wikipedia page is necessary these days. It's not entirely unlike how politic