Re: Re: [sage-devel] Re: use Sage!

2013-08-30 Thread Martin Albrecht
Hi all, seems like my environment is very very forgiving. I missed amsmath and amssym. I’ve just committed a new version which should compile in standard environments. Cheers, Martin On Friday 30 Aug 2013 09:13:02 William Stein wrote: > On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 8:40 AM, Jason Grout > > wrote:

Re: Re: Re: [sage-devel] Re: use Sage!

2013-08-30 Thread john_perry_usm
Martin Maybe one of us misunderstands the other (& maybe this should become a new thread? dunno). I am somewhat hesitant, though, to go too deep into signature based > algorithms > and new improvements... It was not my intention to go deep into signature based algorithms; I was trying to qu

Re: [sage-devel] Re: use Sage!

2013-08-30 Thread William Stein
On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 8:40 AM, Jason Grout wrote: > On 8/30/13 5:53 AM, Martin Albrecht wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> it’s here: https://bitbucket.org/malb/sage-gb-book > > > Also, you could create a project on cloud.sagemath.com and collaboratively > edit the textbook right there. Live, real-time

Re: Re: Re: [sage-devel] Re: use Sage!

2013-08-30 Thread Martin Albrecht
Hi all, it’s here: https://bitbucket.org/malb/sage-gb-book Cheers, Martin On Thursday 29 Aug 2013 20:53:32 john_perry_usm wrote: > Martin > > > I'd be willing to help with this. Aside from having worked with you on a > couple of the programs, I've been working on resurrecting the dynamic > alg

Re: Re: Re: [sage-devel] Re: use Sage!

2013-08-30 Thread Martin Albrecht
Hi John, [sage-devel] awesome! I shall put what I have in a repository on bitbucket and you can then have a look to see what you think might need work etc.? I am somewhat hesitant, though, to go too deep into signature based algorithms and new improvements, this sounds more like research than a

Re: Re: [sage-devel] Re: use Sage!

2013-08-29 Thread john_perry_usm
Martin I'd be willing to help with this. Aside from having worked with you on a couple of the programs, I've been working on resurrecting the dynamic algorithms of Caboara and Gritzmann and Sturmfels, using a new technique. I also have some stuff you could probably use for introductory mate

Re: Re: [sage-devel] Re: use Sage!

2013-08-29 Thread Martin Albrecht
On Wednesday 28 Aug 2013 11:17:10 Rob Beezer wrote: > If you think this is a good project for the Sage community, then consider > demonstrate the viability by volunteering as an author, editor, producer > and/or manager of such an effort (in addition to those expressing interest > already above).

Re: [sage-devel] Re: use Sage!

2013-08-28 Thread Rob Beezer
There were discussions about a Sage Book Series at the two Sage Days (notebook and edu) in Seattle back in June, motivated in part by this thread. Discussion centered on interest in creating books about Sage, and the advisability of the Sage community producing them ourselves. I volunteered to

Re: [sage-devel] Re: use Sage!

2013-06-05 Thread Nathann Cohen
> That's not crazy at all. It's exactly the spirit that makes Sage great! > You seem to elude the possibility that this might be crazy AND be what makes Sage great. Nathann -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from

Re: [sage-devel] Re: use Sage!

2013-06-04 Thread William Stein
On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 10:36 PM, Minh Nguyen wrote: > Hi William, > > On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 2:41 AM, William Stein wrote: >> Would somebody like Minh Nguyen be willing to do technical copyediting >> in exchange for a percentage of sales? > > I might be crazy for saying this, but I would rather d

Re: [sage-devel] Re: use Sage!

2013-06-04 Thread Minh Nguyen
Hi William, On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 2:41 AM, William Stein wrote: > Would somebody like Minh Nguyen be willing to do technical copyediting > in exchange for a percentage of sales? I might be crazy for saying this, but I would rather donate my time for copy editing than risk a conflict of interest

Re: [sage-devel] Re: use Sage!

2013-06-04 Thread Dima Pasechnik
[this didn't make it past gmane, so I repost here, sorry; I also add few things] On Tuesday, 4 June 2013 00:41:19 UTC+8, William wrote: > > On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 6:00 PM, rjf > > wrote: > [...] > > but if you have already written it and Springer would like to publish > it, > > and it doesn'

Re: [sage-devel] Re: use Sage!

2013-06-04 Thread Rob Beezer
On Monday, June 3, 2013 6:26:22 PM UTC-7, kcrisman wrote: > > That is true in this context, you are right - though I wonder if someone > completely "new to the community" wanted to contribute something. I still > think the "real editorial board" makes sense. Yes, I think an editorial board i

Re: [sage-devel] Re: use Sage!

2013-06-03 Thread kcrisman
On Monday, June 3, 2013 5:36:22 PM UTC-4, Rob Beezer wrote: > > On Monday, June 3, 2013 11:16:54 AM UTC-7, kcrisman wrote: >> >> >> Intriguing idea. I think that you'd definitely need a real "editorial >> board", with at least blind review (probably double-blind is unrealistic?). >> > > As a re

Re: [sage-devel] Re: use Sage!

2013-06-03 Thread Rob Beezer
On Monday, June 3, 2013 11:16:54 AM UTC-7, kcrisman wrote: > > > Intriguing idea. I think that you'd definitely need a real "editorial > board", with at least blind review (probably double-blind is unrealistic?). > As a referee of articles for a popular journal published by a large mathematical

Re: [sage-devel] Re: use Sage!

2013-06-03 Thread Rob Beezer
On Monday, June 3, 2013 9:41:19 AM UTC-7, William wrote: > What do people think? Do you think we can create our own series, of > just as high of quality as Springer, but more inexpensive for readers, > and with a creative commons license? > Yes. +1. > Would somebody like Minh Nguyen be

Re: [sage-devel] Re: use Sage!

2013-06-03 Thread Volker Braun
+1 - After all the flaming on the mailinglist we should be able to face criticism ;-) Also, reviewer should be another core Sage developer. So chances are you know each other already... On Monday, June 3, 2013 9:16:10 PM UTC+1, William wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 11:16 AM, kcrisman > >

Re: [sage-devel] Re: use Sage!

2013-06-03 Thread Jake Kesinger
The link was only showing the latest 10 titles by default, the series stretches back to about 2006 or so (look for the 'Show all 46 results' link). I'm looking at the title page for one right now and it's (c) Springer 2009. I own several books in this series, some are better than others but in ge

Re: [sage-devel] Re: use Sage!

2013-06-03 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 11:16 AM, kcrisman wrote: > > at least blind review (probably double-blind is unrealistic?). > non-rhetorical question: Do you really think anybody deciding on whether to read/buy a book on amazon.com considers whether or not there is blind or double-blind review of the man

Re: [sage-devel] Re: use Sage!

2013-06-03 Thread David Kirkby
On 6 May 2013 02:00, rjf wrote: > > > On Thursday, May 2, 2013 1:27:30 PM UTC-7, William wrote: >> >> Hi Sage-Developers, >> >> There is a big series of small books about R that Springer publishes: >> >> http://www.springer.com/series/6991?detailsPage=titles >> >> The editorial director of that

Re: [sage-devel] Re: use Sage!

2013-06-03 Thread kcrisman
On Monday, June 3, 2013 12:41:19 PM UTC-4, William wrote: > > On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 6:00 PM, rjf > > wrote: > [...] > > but if you have already written it and Springer would like to publish > it, > > and it doesn't interfere with your ownership, it seems like you have > > nothing to lose.

Re: [sage-devel] Re: use Sage!

2013-06-03 Thread William Stein
On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 6:00 PM, rjf wrote: [...] > but if you have already written it and Springer would like to publish it, > and it doesn't interfere with your ownership, it seems like you have > nothing to lose. But make sure you don't give away something > unintentionally, whether it is right

Re: [sage-devel] Re: use Sage!

2013-05-06 Thread Nathann Cohen
> Looks like Springer behaves in this market as Apple in personal > computers, charging more for reasons not always clear... Just for fun : http://www.springer.com/computer/theoretical+computer+science/book/978-3-642-14763-0 And I found this one yesterday : http://www.springer.com/statistics/stat