[sage-devel] Re: book that uses sage

2008-07-17 Thread Daryl Hammond
In section 1.1.3 of your book you state: "The smallest currently open challenge is RSA-704, worth $30.000: ..." In 2007 RSA withdrew all unsolved factoring challenges: http://www.rsa.com/rsalabs/node.asp?id=2094 RSA-704 remains unsolved, but solving it today will only earn you a mention in wikip

[sage-devel] Re: book that uses sage

2008-07-14 Thread Robert Schwarz
On page 4, under "Background", it says: The reader [...] must have know the basics of groups [...], which seems to be a typo. It's not important at all, but I bet you'll be happy for every error fixed before the book's in print. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to th

[sage-devel] Re: book that uses sage

2008-07-14 Thread Robert Schwarz
On page 4, under Background, it says: The reader [...] must have know the basics of groups, rings, [...] This is minor, but you'll sure be happy for every error fixed before the book's in print. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-deve

[sage-devel] Re: book that uses sage

2008-07-13 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 6:08 PM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Will the book be available online, or do I need to save the copy now? > > Save your copy now! I signed the contract with springer 8 years ago > before I worried about things like making books freely available online.

[sage-devel] Re: book that uses sage

2008-07-11 Thread William Stein
On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 4:16 AM, Ondrej Certik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 10:47 AM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> This number theory book that I wrote uses Sage throughout: >> >> http://sage.math.washington.edu/papers/ent/ent-stein/ent.pdf >> >

[sage-devel] Re: book that uses sage

2008-07-11 Thread William Stein
On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 7:52 AM, Martin Albrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I was actualy always wondering how hard would it to add to Sage the >> functionality to take some gpg encrypted message and turn it into the >> numbers that you talk about, so that one can play with it, and at the >>

[sage-devel] Re: book that uses sage

2008-07-11 Thread Martin Albrecht
> I was actualy always wondering how hard would it to add to Sage the > functionality to take some gpg encrypted message and turn it into the > numbers that you talk about, so that one can play with it, and at the > end turn this into the gpg message again. My impression is that this would be str

[sage-devel] Re: book that uses sage

2008-07-11 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 10:47 AM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > This number theory book that I wrote uses Sage throughout: > > http://sage.math.washington.edu/papers/ent/ent-stein/ent.pdf > > It will be published by Springer-Verlag as a UTM book sometime > in the next 6 month

[sage-devel] Re: book that uses sage

2008-07-11 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 9 Jul, 09:47, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > This number theory book that I wrote uses Sage throughout: > > http://sage.math.washington.edu/papers/ent/ent-stein/ent.pdf > > It will be published by Springer-Verlag as a UTM book sometime > in the next 6 months. Comments

[sage-devel] Re: book that uses sage

2008-07-09 Thread David Joyner
This looks really excellent. A few extremely minor comments. (1) You have 2 photos of Lenstra, p133+p137. I'm not sure if that was intended. (Also, one is "Lenstra" and the other is "Hendrik Lenstra", yet the references have papers by both H Lenstra and A Lenstra.) (2) The Juno Reactor cover art o

[sage-devel] Re: book that uses sage

2008-07-09 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 1:53 AM, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Jul 9, 1:47 am, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> This number theory book that I wrote uses Sage throughout: >> >> http://sage.math.washington.edu/papers/ent/ent-stein/ent.pdf >> >> It will be publ

[sage-devel] Re: book that uses sage

2008-07-09 Thread mabshoff
On Jul 9, 1:47 am, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > This number theory book that I wrote uses Sage throughout: > > http://sage.math.washington.edu/papers/ent/ent-stein/ent.pdf > > It will be published by Springer-Verlag as a UTM book sometime > in the next 6 months.   Comment