Re: [sage-devel] Re: tutorial()

2013-07-08 Thread Jan Groenewald
sage: tutorial?? Type: instancemethod String Form:> File: /usr/lib/sagemath/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sage/misc/sagedoc.py Definition: tutorial(self) Source: def tutorial(self): """ The Sage tutorial. To get started with Sage, start here. EXAMPLES::

[sage-devel] Re: tutorial()

2013-07-08 Thread vdelecroix
Le lundi 8 juillet 2013 13:32:11 UTC+1, Jan Groenewald a écrit : > > notebook() launches in firefox (my preferred browser on ubuntu 12.04). > tutorial() launches in chromium, why is that? Trying to do a from-source > install > so that I can look at the code. > You do not need to install from sour

[sage-devel] Re: tutorial on Python functional programming for mathematicians

2009-12-15 Thread Jason Grout
Harald Schilly wrote: > On Dec 15, 4:34 am, mhampton wrote: >> Thanks for pointing that out. I was looking for "svd", lower-case, >> and missed it. > > actually, me too. Is there a reason why it is uppercase? I'm for > renaming it to lowercase and adding an uppercase synonym for backwards > comp

[sage-devel] Re: tutorial on Python functional programming for mathematicians

2009-12-15 Thread Harald Schilly
On Dec 15, 4:34 am, mhampton wrote: > Thanks for pointing that out.  I was looking for "svd", lower-case, > and missed it. actually, me too. Is there a reason why it is uppercase? I'm for renaming it to lowercase and adding an uppercase synonym for backwards compatibility. h -- To post to this

[sage-devel] Re: tutorial on Python functional programming for mathematicians

2009-12-14 Thread mhampton
Thanks for pointing that out. I was looking for "svd", lower-case, and missed it. -Marshall On Dec 14, 6:33 pm, Jason Grout wrote: > Jason Grout wrote: > > > Use .SVD(): > > I should mention that .SVD just calls numpy/scipy for the actual > computation. > > Jason -- To post to this group, sen

[sage-devel] Re: tutorial on Python functional programming for mathematicians

2009-12-14 Thread Jason Grout
Jason Grout wrote: > > Use .SVD(): > I should mention that .SVD just calls numpy/scipy for the actual computation. Jason -- 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

[sage-devel] Re: tutorial on Python functional programming for mathematicians

2009-12-14 Thread Jason Grout
mhampton wrote: > If you convert to numpy matrices, then Sage is pretty competitive with > matlab. We still have some room for improvement in making it easy > though - despite Jason Grout's improvements, a matrix over RDF is > missing some methods I'd like, such as the singular value > decompositi

[sage-devel] Re: tutorial on Python functional programming for mathematicians

2009-12-14 Thread Jason Grout
David Joyner wrote: > Going form a vague memory: > My colleague was arguing that one should not teach > a course in scientific programming using Sage > because it was so slow in doing some very simple > things. Apparently if A is a vector or matrix in matlab > (ie, an array or real numbers) and f

[sage-devel] Re: tutorial on Python functional programming for mathematicians

2009-12-14 Thread kcrisman
With respect to some of this discussion, see also the following sage- support request: http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support/browse_thread/thread/9e6475494f85cd53 - kcrisman -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an ema

Re: [sage-devel] Re: tutorial on Python functional programming for mathematicians

2009-12-13 Thread Minh Nguyen
Hi Chris, On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 9:30 PM, chris wuthrich wrote: > > Thanks a lot for this tutorial. I think it would be great to have it > included in the documentation. See ticket #7679 [1] for a patch to enhance the Constructions document with this tutorial. [1] http://trac.sagemath.org/sag

[sage-devel] Re: tutorial on Python functional programming for mathematicians

2009-12-13 Thread chris wuthrich
Thanks a lot for this tutorial. I think it would be great to have it included in the documentation. I did not know anything about functional programming before using sage. To a new mathematical user without python knowledge things like lambda = 4 SyntaxError: invalid syntax lambda? No object 'l

[sage-devel] Re: tutorial on Python functional programming for mathematicians

2009-12-13 Thread Harald Schilly
On Dec 13, 1:02 am, Minh Nguyen wrote: > I have written a draft of a tutorial on functional programming for > mathematicians. Very nice, i added a comment and I just repeat it here. I think you should also point to the "operator" python package, since defining add in a function is an overhead and

[sage-devel] Re: tutorial on Python functional programming for mathematicians

2009-12-13 Thread mhampton
If you convert to numpy matrices, then Sage is pretty competitive with matlab. We still have some room for improvement in making it easy though - despite Jason Grout's improvements, a matrix over RDF is missing some methods I'd like, such as the singular value decomposition. As an example, to ext

Re: [sage-devel] Re: tutorial on Python functional programming for mathematicians

2009-12-12 Thread Minh Nguyen
Hi Jason, On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Jason Grout wrote: > Do you think you could add a sentence or two in the filter section about > using list comprehensions to do filters, like you did above in the map > section? The tutorial is updated with such an example. Say the problem is to gen

[sage-devel] Re: tutorial on Python functional programming for mathematicians

2009-12-12 Thread Nils Bruin
On Dec 12, 5:56 pm, Jason Grout wrote: > There's apparently a lot more overhead than I would have imagined: > > sage: %timeit [v for v in (x for x in range(10) ) if v > 0] > 10 loops, best of 3: 5.4 s per loop > sage: %timeit [v for v in range(10) if v>0] > 10 loops, best of 3: 2.98 s per

[sage-devel] Re: tutorial on Python functional programming for mathematicians

2009-12-12 Thread Jason Grout
Nils Bruin wrote: > On Dec 12, 4:24 pm, Jason Grout wrote: >> [f(x) for x in [1..10] if f(x)>0] > > This is actually bad style. It means that f gets evaluated twice for > all the values that end up in the list. Good point. > The magma language solves this with modified semantics for the "where"

[sage-devel] Re: tutorial on Python functional programming for mathematicians

2009-12-12 Thread Nils Bruin
On Dec 12, 4:24 pm, Jason Grout wrote: > [f(x) for x in [1..10] if f(x)>0] This is actually bad style. It means that f gets evaluated twice for all the values that end up in the list. The magma language solves this with modified semantics for the "where" clause. One would write: [ v : x in [1..1

[sage-devel] Re: tutorial on Python functional programming for mathematicians

2009-12-12 Thread Jason Grout
Minh Nguyen wrote: > Hi folks, > > I have written a draft of a tutorial on functional programming for > mathematicians. The tutorial is available on the Sage wiki [1], but > you could also find it at Wordpress [2]. This is a redundancy measure > in case the wiki is down. I invite you to comments o

[sage-devel] Re: tutorial: en vs. fr versions

2009-09-16 Thread peterjeremy
[This is getting a bit dated but I am endeavouring to post it simply to get my work out what is wrong with my subscription] I don't think this is as impossible as some people have suggested. Since there is a fairly heavy academic involvement in Sage: Maybe an expedition to the local School of La

[sage-devel] Re: tutorial: en vs. fr versions

2009-09-09 Thread Maurizio
Hi all would you please consider updating this page http://wiki.sagemath.org/i18n or any other? I think it is very important to have a well defined and commonly accepted process to manage translations. I don't know how, but probably there should be an automatic notification somewhere if the do

[sage-devel] Re: tutorial: en vs. fr versions

2009-09-09 Thread Nathann Cohen
> To keep you and Nathann posted on changes to the Sage tutorial, both > of you can be CC'd on tickets that change the tutorial. That's one way > to keep up to date. Excellent ! Nathann --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googl

[sage-devel] Re: tutorial: en vs. fr versions

2009-09-09 Thread Minh Nguyen
On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 5:50 PM, Burcin Erocal wrote: > BTW, it seems that #4318 and #5337 should be closed. Ticket #5337 is now closed. I'm not sure about #4318; someone who knows French should look into that ticket. -- Regards Minh Van Nguyen --~--~-~--~~~---~--

[sage-devel] Re: tutorial: en vs. fr versions

2009-09-09 Thread Minh Nguyen
Hi Philippe, On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 5:46 PM, Philippe Saade wrote: > I can help for the translation of Sage's tutorial in french. > > I would like to volunteer for the incorporation of new docs in french > on the sagemath.org/fr part of the official site. For each Sage release, I also build F

[sage-devel] Re: tutorial: en vs. fr versions

2009-09-09 Thread Burcin Erocal
On Tue, 8 Sep 2009 13:55:27 -0700 (PDT) John H Palmieri wrote: > How important is it that these documents stay synchronized? If it's > important, how should this be managed? Are there any francophones who > would like to volunteer to make a translation whenever the English > version is changed

[sage-devel] Re: tutorial: en vs. fr versions

2009-09-09 Thread Philippe Saade
Hi, I have not been very active last year on this list because of job changes but now Sage is one thing i will involve in with a more regular pace. I can help for the translation of Sage's tutorial in french. I would like to volunteer for the incorporation of new docs in french on the sagemath.

[sage-devel] Re: tutorial: en vs. fr versions

2009-09-09 Thread Nathann Cohen
If there is an easy way ( = passive way. Translators are being kept aware of modifications ) to know when some modification is done, and if you do not expect it for the following morning. This should not be a problem at all to keep all the french tutorials up to date. The best way, perhaps, to be

[sage-devel] Re: tutorial: en vs. fr versions

2009-09-08 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
William Stein wrote: > On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Dr. David Kirkby > wrote: >> John H Palmieri wrote: >>> I just noticed that there are some differences between the English and >>> French tutorials: first, they're written in totally different >>> languages. >>> >>> No, sorry, just kidding.

[sage-devel] Re: tutorial: en vs. fr versions

2009-09-08 Thread William Stein
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > > John H Palmieri wrote: >> I just noticed that there are some differences between the English and >> French tutorials: first, they're written in totally different >> languages. >> >> No, sorry, just kidding.  Actually, some paragraphs have

[sage-devel] Re: tutorial: en vs. fr versions

2009-09-08 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
John H Palmieri wrote: > I just noticed that there are some differences between the English and > French tutorials: first, they're written in totally different > languages. > > No, sorry, just kidding. Actually, some paragraphs have been added to > the English version without corresponding chang

[sage-devel] Re: tutorial / screencast

2009-07-20 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 3:53 PM, casbon wrote: > > > On Jul 11, 6:59 pm, William Stein wrote: >> 2009/7/11 casbon : >> Any chance you could try out http://sagenb.org and give similar feedback? >> [to what you gave for codenode] > > This seems a lot clearer - the evaluate button works, blocks wor

[sage-devel] Re: Tutorial topics for SciPy'09 Conference

2009-07-07 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 3:22 PM, William Stein wrote: > On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 12:15 AM, Dag Sverre > Seljebotn wrote: >> >> William Stein wrote: >>> Perhaps I'm missing the point, but I'm taking this as a message to >>> focus in Sage more on the algebraic/symbolic side of mathematics >>> (e.g., Ma

[sage-devel] Re: Tutorial topics for SciPy'09 Conference

2009-07-02 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Jul 1, 2009, at 3:15 PM, Dag Sverre Seljebotn wrote: > William Stein wrote: >> Perhaps I'm missing the point, but I'm taking this as a message to >> focus in Sage more on the algebraic/symbolic side of mathematics >> (e.g., Magma, Maple, Mathematica) rather than the numerical side, at >> least

[sage-devel] Re: Tutorial topics for SciPy'09 Conference

2009-07-02 Thread ghtdak
So, here's the thing... and this is entirely IMHO (some may question whether the "H" applies :-) There's been some off-and-on sidebar chatter on this subject for a while and this thread seems a place to insert it publicly. Sage has a HUGE amount of functionality built in that is very useful to t

[sage-devel] Re: Tutorial topics for SciPy'09 Conference

2009-07-01 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 10:23 PM, Jason Grout wrote: > > Ondrej Certik wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 8:56 PM, Jason Grout >> wrote: >>> Ondrej Certik wrote: On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 6:33 PM, William Stein wrote: > 2009/7/2 Stéfan van der Walt : >> 2009/7/1 William Stein : >>> Per

[sage-devel] Re: Tutorial topics for SciPy'09 Conference

2009-07-01 Thread Jason Grout
Ondrej Certik wrote: > On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 8:56 PM, Jason Grout > wrote: >> Ondrej Certik wrote: >>> On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 6:33 PM, William Stein wrote: 2009/7/2 Stéfan van der Walt : > 2009/7/1 William Stein : >> Perhaps I'm missing the point, but I'm taking this as a message to

[sage-devel] Re: Tutorial topics for SciPy'09 Conference

2009-07-01 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 8:56 PM, Jason Grout wrote: > > Ondrej Certik wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 6:33 PM, William Stein wrote: >>> 2009/7/2 Stéfan van der Walt : 2009/7/1 William Stein : > Perhaps I'm missing the point, but I'm taking this as a message to > focus in Sage more on

[sage-devel] Re: Tutorial topics for SciPy'09 Conference

2009-07-01 Thread Jason Grout
Ondrej Certik wrote: > On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 6:33 PM, William Stein wrote: >> 2009/7/2 Stéfan van der Walt : >>> 2009/7/1 William Stein : Perhaps I'm missing the point, but I'm taking this as a message to focus in Sage more on the algebraic/symbolic side of mathematics (e.g., Magma

[sage-devel] Re: Tutorial topics for SciPy'09 Conference

2009-07-01 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 6:33 PM, William Stein wrote: > > 2009/7/2 Stéfan van der Walt : >> >> 2009/7/1 William Stein : >>> Perhaps I'm missing the point, but I'm taking this as a message to >>> focus in Sage more on the algebraic/symbolic side of mathematics >>> (e.g., Magma, Maple, Mathematica) r

[sage-devel] Re: Tutorial topics for SciPy'09 Conference

2009-07-01 Thread William Stein
2009/7/2 Stéfan van der Walt : > > 2009/7/1 William Stein : >> Perhaps I'm missing the point, but I'm taking this as a message to >> focus in Sage more on the algebraic/symbolic side of mathematics >> (e.g., Magma, Maple, Mathematica) rather than the numerical side, at >> least for the time being.

[sage-devel] Re: Tutorial topics for SciPy'09 Conference

2009-07-01 Thread Stéfan van der Walt
2009/7/1 William Stein : > Perhaps I'm missing the point, but I'm taking this as a message to > focus in Sage more on the algebraic/symbolic side of mathematics > (e.g., Magma, Maple, Mathematica) rather than the numerical side, at > least for the time being.    I don't have a problem with that >

[sage-devel] Re: Tutorial topics for SciPy'09 Conference

2009-07-01 Thread William Stein
On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 12:49 AM, Ondrej Certik wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 4:20 PM, William Stein wrote: > [...] >> Anyway, +1 to their being a BSD'd build system.    Most code in Sage >> is GPL'd because either (1) it is derived from code GPL'd a decade >> ago, or (2) we'll get ripped off b

[sage-devel] Re: Tutorial topics for SciPy'09 Conference

2009-07-01 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 4:20 PM, William Stein wrote: [...] > Anyway, +1 to their being a BSD'd build system.    Most code in Sage > is GPL'd because either (1) it is derived from code GPL'd a decade > ago, or (2) we'll get ripped off by the Ma's.    The build system > doesn't fall into either cate

[sage-devel] Re: Tutorial topics for SciPy'09 Conference

2009-07-01 Thread William Stein
On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 12:15 AM, Dag Sverre Seljebotn wrote: > > William Stein wrote: >> Perhaps I'm missing the point, but I'm taking this as a message to >> focus in Sage more on the algebraic/symbolic side of mathematics >> (e.g., Magma, Maple, Mathematica) rather than the numerical side, at >>

[sage-devel] Re: Tutorial topics for SciPy'09 Conference

2009-07-01 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 11:51 PM, Ondrej Certik wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 1:43 PM, William Stein wrote: >> >> On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 8:50 PM, Fernando Perez wrote: >>> >>> Howdy, >>> >>> On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 3:57 AM, William Stein wrote: I have to add that not only is Sage very low o

[sage-devel] Re: Tutorial topics for SciPy'09 Conference

2009-07-01 Thread Dag Sverre Seljebotn
William Stein wrote: > Perhaps I'm missing the point, but I'm taking this as a message to > focus in Sage more on the algebraic/symbolic side of mathematics > (e.g., Magma, Maple, Mathematica) rather than the numerical side, at > least for the time being.I don't have a problem with that > pers

[sage-devel] Re: Tutorial topics for SciPy'09 Conference

2009-07-01 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 1:43 PM, William Stein wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 8:50 PM, Fernando Perez wrote: >> >> Howdy, >> >> On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 3:57 AM, William Stein wrote: >>> I have to add that not only is Sage very low on the above list, Sage >>> got the *most* "no" votes from the 30

[sage-devel] Re: Tutorial topics for SciPy'09 Conference

2009-07-01 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 10:56 PM, Kevin Horton wrote: > > William Stein wrote: >> >> The best conclusion I can draw from all this is that for now at least >> I'm going to focus on symbolic/algebraic computation, and let >> Enthought continue to do a great job building the Python numerical >> stack.

[sage-devel] Re: Tutorial topics for SciPy'09 Conference

2009-07-01 Thread Kevin Horton
William Stein wrote: > > The best conclusion I can draw from all this is that for now at least > I'm going to focus on symbolic/algebraic computation, and let > Enthought continue to do a great job building the Python numerical > stack. I think that the survey results are at least in part a reflec

[sage-devel] Re: Tutorial topics for SciPy'09 Conference

2009-07-01 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 8:50 PM, Fernando Perez wrote: > > Howdy, > > On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 3:57 AM, William Stein wrote: >> I have to add that not only is Sage very low on the above list, Sage >> got the *most* "no" votes from the 30 people who actually voted (tying >> only with Networkx), accord

[sage-devel] Re: Tutorial topics for SciPy'09 Conference

2009-07-01 Thread Fernando Perez
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 11:50 AM, Fernando Perez wrote: > I sort of doubt that most people would make their decisions on what > tools to learn based on licenses, or at least I hope that's the case. To be precise: amongst open source tools. I do use licenses as a criterion: if choosing between a p

[sage-devel] Re: Tutorial topics for SciPy'09 Conference

2009-07-01 Thread Fernando Perez
Howdy, On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 3:57 AM, William Stein wrote: > I have to add that not only is Sage very low on the above list, Sage > got the *most* "no" votes from the 30 people who actually voted (tying > only with Networkx), according to the table here: > >    http://fdoperez.blogspot.com/2009/

[sage-devel] Re: Tutorial topics for SciPy'09 Conference

2009-07-01 Thread Dag Sverre Seljebotn
William Stein wrote: > On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 12:15 PM, William Stein wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 9:41 AM, Fernando Perez wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 10:20 PM, Fernando Perez wrote: The time for the Scipy'09 conference is rapidly approaching, and we would like to b

[sage-devel] Re: Tutorial topics for SciPy'09 Conference

2009-07-01 Thread David Joyner
Note that there was already a Python+Sage talk at a recent SIAM conference http://fdoperez.blogspot.com/2008/07/python-tools-for-science-go-to-siam.html http://www.ams.org/ams/siam-2008.html#python which was apparently very popular. It may be that those who attended the SIAM conference and who are

[sage-devel] Re: Tutorial topics for SciPy'09 Conference

2009-07-01 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 1:37 PM, Harald Schilly wrote: > > On Jul 1, 12:57 pm, William Stein wrote: >> >>    http://fdoperez.blogspot.com/2009/06/scipy-advanced-tutorials-results... >> >> I don't know if I should interpret this as: > > my interpretation is, that people simply want to learn more ab

[sage-devel] Re: Tutorial topics for SciPy'09 Conference

2009-07-01 Thread Harald Schilly
On Jul 1, 12:57 pm, William Stein wrote: > >    http://fdoperez.blogspot.com/2009/06/scipy-advanced-tutorials-results... > > I don't know if I should interpret this as: my interpretation is, that people simply want to learn more about those tools which they already know about. sage isn't part of

[sage-devel] Re: Tutorial topics for SciPy'09 Conference

2009-07-01 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 12:15 PM, William Stein wrote: > On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 9:41 AM, Fernando Perez wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 10:20 PM, Fernando Perez wrote: >>> The time for the Scipy'09 conference is rapidly approaching, and we >>> would like to both announce the plan for

[sage-devel] Re: Tutorial topics for SciPy'09 Conference

2009-07-01 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 9:41 AM, Fernando Perez wrote: > > Hi, > > On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 10:20 PM, Fernando Perez wrote: >> The time for the Scipy'09 conference is rapidly approaching, and we >> would like to both announce the plan for tutorials and solicit >> feedback from everyone on topics of i

[sage-devel] Re: Tutorial topics for SciPy'09 Conference

2009-07-01 Thread Fernando Perez
Hi, On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 10:20 PM, Fernando Perez wrote: > The time for the Scipy'09 conference is rapidly approaching, and we > would like to both announce the plan for tutorials and solicit > feedback from everyone on topics of interest. rather than rehash much here, where it's not easy to p

[sage-devel] Re: Tutorial topics for SciPy'09 Conference

2009-06-15 Thread Fernando Perez
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 6:24 AM, Jason Grout wrote: > > Fernando Perez wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> In order to proceed with contacting speakers, we'd now like to get >> some feedback from you.  This Doodle poll should take no more than a > > > Does "you" mean "people attending scipy09", or does it mea

[sage-devel] Re: Tutorial topics for SciPy'09 Conference

2009-06-15 Thread Jason Grout
Fernando Perez wrote: > Hi all, > > In order to proceed with contacting speakers, we'd now like to get > some feedback from you. This Doodle poll should take no more than a Does "you" mean "people attending scipy09", or does it mean "sage developers, whether or not you are attending scipy09"?

[sage-devel] Re: Tutorial topics for SciPy'09 Conference

2009-06-15 Thread Fernando Perez
Hi all, In order to proceed with contacting speakers, we'd now like to get some feedback from you. This Doodle poll should take no more than a couple of minutes to fill out (no password or registration required): http://doodle.com/hb5bea6fivm3b5bk So please let us know which topics you are mos

[sage-devel] Re: Tutorial topics for SciPy'09 Conference

2009-06-01 Thread Fernando Perez
On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 10:22 PM, Fernando Perez wrote: > Hi all, > > The time for the Scipy'09 conference is rapidly approaching, and we > would like to both announce the plan for tutorials and solicit > feedback from everyone on topics of interest. I hope the above isn't considered too off-topi

[sage-devel] Re: tutorial: add something about functions vs. expressions, etc.?

2009-03-10 Thread Michel
Very nice. This something I always found confusing. One thing is not clear to me: why is "sin" not a callable symbolic expression by default? Is there a coneptional reason for this, or is it performance related? On Mar 10, 8:07 am, William Stein wrote: > On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 4:32 PM, John H Pa

[sage-devel] Re: tutorial: add something about functions vs. expressions, etc.?

2009-03-10 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 4:32 PM, John H Palmieri wrote: > > It seems like specifying a function for plotting or differentiation is > a common point of confusion.  For example, see these threads (and I > know there have been others): > >

[sage-devel] Re: tutorial: what to add

2008-06-11 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 12:53 PM, John H Palmieri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What should be included in the tutorial that's not already there? In > another thread > > 77ddcfefa972bb9b/53fda9a549b12d63? > lnk=gst&q=dirichlet#53fda9

[sage-devel] Re: tutorial: math questions about dirichlet characters

2008-05-31 Thread John H Palmieri
On May 30, 6:44 pm, mhampton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybe they are better put in another place (Sage Constructions > perhaps), but I have some ideas for broadening the tutorial: > > 1) In calculus/differential equations, give a cythonized version of > Runge-Kutta, and maybe an @interact ex

[sage-devel] Re: tutorial: math questions about dirichlet characters

2008-05-30 Thread William Stein
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 6:44 PM, mhampton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Maybe they are better put in another place (Sage Constructions > perhaps), but I have some ideas for broadening the tutorial: > > 1) In calculus/differential equations, give a cythonized version of > Runge-Kutta, and maybe an

[sage-devel] Re: tutorial: math questions about dirichlet characters

2008-05-30 Thread William Stein
> > Well, as I said, I'm trying to edit it. This will take several passes: > copy-editing (rewording, making the typesetting look better, etc.), > and then when I've done a big enough chunk, or when I see something > that seems out of place, thinking about re-organizing things. I don't > know if

[sage-devel] Re: tutorial: math questions about dirichlet characters

2008-05-30 Thread mhampton
Maybe they are better put in another place (Sage Constructions perhaps), but I have some ideas for broadening the tutorial: 1) In calculus/differential equations, give a cythonized version of Runge-Kutta, and maybe an @interact example on different numerical methods; there are a couple of @intera

[sage-devel] Re: tutorial: math questions about dirichlet characters

2008-05-30 Thread John H Palmieri
On May 30, 5:17 pm, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 4:33 PM, David Joyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 5:27 PM, John H Palmieri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> I'm working on rewriting the tutorial.  Section 2.5.1 of the tutorial

[sage-devel] Re: tutorial: math questions about dirichlet characters

2008-05-30 Thread William Stein
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 4:33 PM, David Joyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 5:27 PM, John H Palmieri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> I'm working on rewriting the tutorial. Section 2.5.1 of the tutorial >> is about Dirichlet characters, and I have some questions: >> >> Th

[sage-devel] Re: tutorial: math questions about dirichlet characters

2008-05-30 Thread David Joyner
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 5:27 PM, John H Palmieri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm working on rewriting the tutorial. Section 2.5.1 of the tutorial > is about Dirichlet characters, and I have some questions: > > The introductory sentence discusses "Dirichlet characters", and then > the first exa

[sage-devel] Re: Tutorial to translate in french

2007-12-02 Thread Ted Kosan
Philippe wrote: > as I said last week, I am willing to give a little help for the usage > of SAGE in french educational system. One thing that showed to be > important was the availability of a tutorial in french. > > I would appreciate some experts on that list (;-) to point me to an > existing

[sage-devel] Re: Tutorial to translate in french

2007-12-02 Thread David Joyner
The "tutorial" and "constructions" links on http://www.sagemath.org/documentation.html are what you want. On Dec 2, 2007 12:41 PM, Philippe Saade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > hi all, > > as I said last week, I am willing to give a little help for the usage > of SAGE in french educational syste