the project, and details
regarding how to apply to be part of the study can be found at [2] and [3].
Extended deadline for submitting materials is June 30. Faculty and institutions
selected will be notified by July 10.
Thank you,
Vilma Mesa, vm...@umich.edu
Rob Beezer, bee...@ups.edu
[1] http
the project, and details
regarding how to apply to be part of the study can be found at [2] and [3].
Deadline for submitting materials is April 3rd. Faculty and institutions
selected will be notified by Friday, April 17.
Thank you,
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Rob Beezer, bee...@ups.edu
[1
Dear Henri,
This "work in progress" might be helpful:
http://buzzard.pugetsound.edu/cs/cs.html
Rob
On 03/17/2018 03:30 AM, Henri Girard wrote:
Bonjour,
je souhaite travailler avec les graphes, j'ai lancé,
I would like to work with graphs and combinatoric I know absolutly nothing about
it, i
s who might be interested.
Rob Beezer, University of Puget Sound
David Farmer, American Institute of Mathematics
Thomas W. Judson, Stephen F. Austin State University
Susan Lynds, University of Colorado
Angeliki Mali, University of Michigan
Vilma Mesa, University of Michigan
Kent E. Morrison, Ame
Dear John,
Harald has sent you some great info and advice on licenses. Its a complicated
topic.
I personally like CC BY-SA, and I also frequently use the GFDL (GNU Free
Documentation License) for longer works, even though it can complicate license
compatibility. Here is an incomplete set o
ed
to worksheets and made available inside SMC (or on a static website
with sage cell server)? Rob Beezer just got a grant related to doing
more of that sort of thing. It could also help immensely in expanding
the range of people who can easily use Sage.
Take a look at
http://abstract.pugetsound.edu
currently maintained by SageMath, Inc., and support for
Andrey Novoseltsev as maintainer.
A new website at the American Institute of Mathematics will debut soon and
be a source of further information and details.
Rob Beezer, Project Director
David Farmer, PI
Tom Judson, PI
Vilma Mesa, PI
Kent
On 12/11/2015 08:51 AM, Volker Braun wrote:
Copy&paste from pdf is generally troublesome, anything thats not just
letter+number is likely to cough up unicode stuff.
Yep, and that's why I've been super-careful about the PDF's produced from
MathBook XML. Left, right, single, double quotes, and
lilypond uses TeX to create "engraved sheet music." So I'd imagine it would
create PDFs that could be converted to other formats.
From a cursory look it appears that music21 has good support for MusicXML so
that might be a way to interoperate between the pieces.
Sample (unencumbered) score
At Sage Days 70 last month, we saw Jupyter notebooks with XBox controllers used
as input devices (think multi-slider interacts).
I finally got the hardware and software all together and working on a local
installation. Once the SageMathCloud version of the Jupyter notebook server
catches up w
The UTMOST Project investigates the affordances and challenges of
integrating powerful open source software for advanced mathematics (ie
Sage) with textbooks and course materials provided with open licenses and
available in a variety of formats. The project seeks to understand the ways
in which
On 09/12/2015 06:28 PM, kcrisman wrote:
Now, on WeBWorK I can just extract this info from my class registration records
and sign them up automatically by uploading a .lst file in a certain
comma-separated format. No sign-up necessary. That seems to be an extra step
that will be annoying - espec
It takes me about 30 minutes to extract the information on my students (from two
different parts of our university's system) to WeBWorK's certain *.lst format,
and only because I have a 7-step search-and-replace script to follow, distilled
from doing it several times. That exceeds my threshold
Looks good. Glad to hear your Chrome problem got sorted out.
You are at about the limit of what I know about configuration. The
mathjax-users group is *very* prompt and helpful if you follow their
posting guidelines when you ask for help:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mathjax-users/
On Sunday, August 2, 2015 at 1:12:29 AM UTC-7, Dima Pasechnik wrote:
> One thing I didn't like was the inability to hide the contents frame(?) on
> the left-hand side. It just sits there for no good reason, and is a
> distraction.
> IMHO it should automatically hide itself...
>
Yes, we discu
Thanks, Bill. It continues to be fun and there's lots more to do. But I am
also looking forward to writing more content myself. ;-)
Rob
On Saturday, August 1, 2015 at 2:54:37 AM UTC-7, Bill Hart wrote:
>
> Rob, this is truly fantastic work. I want to congratulate you on getting
> this up and r
hints in the Javascript here:
http://aimath.org/knowl.js
Rob
On Saturday, August 1, 2015 at 1:28:01 AM UTC-7, parisse wrote:
>
>
>
> Le samedi 1 août 2015 02:17:34 UTC+2, Rob Beezer a écrit :
>>
>> Dear Bernard,
>>
>> Thanks for the note and links. I was not very awa
On Saturday, August 1, 2015 at 3:12:38 AM UTC-7, Dima Pasechnik wrote:
> IMHO we should think about moving non-technical Sage docs to mathbook.
>>
> write an automatic converted, why not...
>
>
Sage-flavored ReST/Sphinx might be structured/predictable enough to be very
amenable to this.
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On Saturday, August 1, 2015 at 2:05:07 AM UTC-7, Dima Pasechnik wrote:
> Perhaps they should rather generate your XML? (beezertex filename ;-))
> No, seriously...
>
Yes, seriously. ;-) I hope that something like this will be in place
eventually.
> Please note that I actually rather like t
On Saturday, August 1, 2015 at 2:45:16 AM UTC-7, Volker Braun wrote:
> It would be nice if Sage cells would know about which cells they depend
> on; Right now evaluating a cell in the middle is very likely to cough up an
> error message about something not being defined.
>
Yes, Sage Cells are
On 07/31/2015 05:25 PM, Dima Pasechnik wrote:
And if it is so easy to convert LaTeX into HTML, why hasn't anybody done it
successfully? tex4ht is the only one I know that comes close, and only
because it is the only one that uses the tex executable.
sure, why is this bad to use the
Dear Bernard,
Thanks for the note and links. I was not very aware of GIAC. It could be
a useful thing for MathBook XML authors to have available.
Have you considered using MathJax within your HTML output? It too is
Javascript and can be configured to execute locally.
Rob
On Friday, July 31
On Friday, July 31, 2015 at 4:06:01 PM UTC-7, Dima Pasechnik wrote:
> I wish Knuth did review (X)HTML format proposals for sanity...
>
I should add that MathBook XML adds no new syntax for mathematics proper.
In other words, symbols, equations, displays are not written in something
like MathM
On Friday, July 31, 2015 at 4:06:01 PM UTC-7, Dima Pasechnik wrote:
>
> You don't need a closing tag that can be inserted by software,
> as certainly is the case for \section or \item..
> (unless you spent a large part of your life writing HTML or XML by hand,
> of course :-))
>
So where does
On Friday, July 31, 2015 at 3:47:56 AM UTC-7, Dima Pasechnik wrote:
>
> XML? I wish pandoc (http://pandoc.org/) could handle conversions to and
> from your format...
> Do people really want to write XML by hand? I tried it once (GAP docs can
> be prepared using XML) and was not amused.
>
> Ju
n the fall and will try to use
> it (along with Artin's book). How does it compare to Artin "Algebra",
> besides offering many Sage examples?
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Anne
>
> On Wednesday, July 29, 2015 at 6:32:36 PM UTC-7, Rob Beezer wrote:
>>
>&g
On Thursday, July 30, 2015 at 12:59:54 PM UTC-7, parisse wrote:
>
> I had a quick look, but I'm still a little bit confused how the source are
> written. Do you write your source files in xml or have you some kind of
> converter from a latex source file?
>
MathBook XML is the "XML application" I
I have had it in my head for many years to integrate Sage tightly with
textbook material. The first full result of this idea, produced through a
general system, is now available. (Perhaps this excuses my near-total
absence from core Sage development the past two or three years.)
Tom Judson's
Dear Chuck,
If the following are important for your project,
* Consistency between PDF and HTML versions
* Standard notation
* Easy-to-navigate HTML version
* Automated testing of Sage code
* Eventual no-effort versions for the Sage Notebook and Sage Math Cloud
* Avoiding a lot of La
Open a *worksheet* and then use the "data" combo-box to upload a data file that
may be used/accessed within the worksheet. You can provide a URL, so maybe that
will be the device to get the file from a remote server.
Note the instructions about using
DATA + ''
as the filename to use within S
.
Also, please add your name to the wiki page, or ask me to do so for you.
Thanks,
Rob
On Wednesday, April 9, 2014 9:21:52 PM UTC-7, Rob Beezer wrote:
>
> Sage Edu Days 6 will take place June 16-18 on the University of Washington
> campus in Seattle, Washington. Target audience i
Sage Edu Days 6 will take place June 16-18 on the University of Washington
campus in Seattle, Washington. Target audience is faculty teaching
undergraduate mathematics, as this is the concentration of the NSF "UTMOST"
grant which provides funding for these events.
There is a skeleton wiki page
Hey TJ,
LaTeX:
I did a 5-day run of an intro-to-LaTeX with sophomore linear algebra students,
with just 10 minutes a day of me pounding out simple examples in the cloud using
a projector in class. Each day's iteration was posted (see below), then a clean
template provided at the conclusion.
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
If you are considering attending these two workshops in Seattle in June,
there may still be funding available for you.
Contact Rob Beezer if you are faculty and have an education-related project.
Contact William Stein if you are a developer and have a notebook-related
project.
Rob
On Tuesday
A Sage Days devoted to the Sage Notebook development will be held at the
University of Washington, June 17-21. This is sponsored by William Stein and
John Palmieri's National Science Foundation COMPMATH grant [1].
At the end of the week, Sage Edu Days 5 will happen at the same venue, June
19-
are inside will
> be even better!
> How do you author this?
>
> Marcin
>
> On Thursday, July 12, 2012 5:18:48 AM UTC+2, Rob Beezer wrote:
>>
>> I can make an EPUB (version 2 or 3) that uses Javascript to employ
>> MathJax and uses Javascript to put up Sage c
I can make an EPUB (version 2 or 3) that uses Javascript to employ MathJax
and uses Javascript to put up Sage cells powered by the cell server.
It all works pretty well in Calibre, which is primarily a conversion tool,
but which also functions as a desktop reader. One small problem is that
Cal
On Thursday, March 15, 2012 1:50:08 PM UTC-7, William Stein wrote:
> It would be good if somebody rewrote abelian groups from scratch
> taking into account your comments above. Personally, I would probably
> make the user interface be similar to Magma's abelian groups, which is
> pretty well th
Sage Edu Days will be held June 13-15 at the University of Washington in
Seattle.
http://wiki.sagemath.org/education4
Anyone with an interest in the use of Sage in educational settings is
welcome to attend. The focus will primarily be on undergraduate
mathematics, but will not be limited to j
Sage Edu Days will be held June 13-15 at the University of Washington in
Seattle.
http://wiki.sagemath.org/education4
Anyone with an interest in the use of Sage in educational settings is
welcome to attend. The focus will primarily be on undergraduate
mathematics, but will not be limited to j
This old book has been updated and released with a CC license, and is
now being announced as a 1.0 version.
http://faculty.uml.edu/klevasseur/ads2/
It has a lot of Mathematica code in it, and maybe half as much Sage
code.
Rob
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no secret. Maybe the textbook idea will go mainstream soon.
This is an editorial that appeared yesterday in the main newspaper for
California's Silicon Valley:
http://www.mercurynews.com/opinion/ci_19533735
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I have updated the Linear Algebra Quick Reference card to more closely match
version 4.8 and to catch up on 2.5 years worth of changes. You can find it (and
others) at:
http://wiki.sagemath.org/quickref
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On Sep 13, 7:13 pm, kcrisman wrote:
> A Sage Days devoted to this - especially because many of the
> things are really just growing pains from our own implementations of
> quite a few years ago - would be nice, though.
See the funded proposal at:
http://modular.math.washington.edu/grants/compmath
Chronicle of Higher Ed blog post comparing CAS on one particular
problem:
http://chronicle.com/blognetwork/castingoutnines/2011/09/13/math-monday-taking-the-fundamental-theorem-challenge/
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On Aug 31, 12:51 pm, Rado wrote:
> Nice use of JSXGraph. Any plans to integrate it better with Sage?
Yes, very nice. But I found it a bit buggy. When I zoomed-in and
panned some, the actual location of the point of interest seemed to
change.
Jason - I'm following your course. I'm teaching Cal
On Aug 11, 8:49 am, kcrisman wrote:
> Does anyone know what
> happened to Bruce Cohen's code where he took the stuff already there
> and built a working prototype of the Geogebra integration in the
> notebook? I don't see anything on that ticket.
Are you thinking of html.iframe()?
http://trac.
(I posted this on sage-devel but forgot to cross-post on sage-edu.)
My "add Sage to Judson's open-source undergraduate abstract algebra
textbook" project is now done. Distribution has moved to the book's
web site. There is a PDF of just new content (for a quick peek), but
mostly a zip file of the
d pdf.
> Sageexample with doctesting would be ideal....
>
> The best
>
> Marcin
>
> On Aug 4, 12:59 am, Rob Beezer wrote:
>
> > (Cross posted - just to intensify the "list condensation" discussion
> > on sage-devel.)
>
> > I may sound like a broken re
(Cross posted - just to intensify the "list condensation" discussion
on sage-devel.)
I may sound like a broken record, but my "add Sage to my linear
algebra textbook" project is now really in a final cleaned-up form.
I've moved distribution to the book web site, and will add the
material to my pro
Cute. ;-)
What happens if you try building it up one factor at a time?
On Jul 29, 11:36 am, "D.C. Ernst" wrote:
> A student of mine just sent me the following batman logo:
>
> http://i.imgur.com/CNy9J.jpg
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This came to me indirectly as a suggestion for those interested in
working with Sage at the high school level.
http://corporate.honda.com/america/philanthropy.aspx?id=ahf
Quoting:
~~
Mission Statement
Help meet the needs of American society in the areas of youth a
There will be a Sage Days workshop June 16-18 at the University of Washington.
Everyone with an interest in teaching mathematics with Sage is invited to
attend. Mornings will have talks about using Sage in typical undergraduate
courses - both the relevant Sage commands and advice from teachers
And to the right you will see a "read review" link, where you can rate
it.
1 to 5 icosahedrons. Vote early and often. ;-)
On Apr 28, 9:17 am, "D.C. Ernst" wrote:
> Sage made the list:
>
> http://mathdl.maa.org/mathDL/61/?pa=newCollection&sa=singleTopicBrows...
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I have completed adding significant explanations and exercises about
Sage to Tom Judson's free open source abstract algebra textbook [1].
The whole textbook is converted to Sage worksheets, one per chapter,
and all but four chapters finish with a discussion of using Sage with
topics for the chapter
On Jan 31, 4:36 am, Jason Grout wrote:
> If someone doesn't get to this, I might work on something
> like this over the summer, as I'm funded to work on notebook code that
> makes Sage easier to use in the classroom.
Jason,
Would it make sense to start a wiki page where folks can describe
curren
The "upload" process into the notebook will also accept a zip file of
worksheets.
So if you "zip" a directory full of your students' work (*.sws) into a
single zip file, you can upload that and the notebook will split out
the individual worksheets.
Someday the notebook will have much better facil
Yes, this is being supported by the NSF as part of a CCLI grant
("UTMOST").
http://artsci.drake.edu/grout/doku.php/grants
The main purpose will be to get folks from our four upcoming test
sites up-to-speed with teaching with Sage. Anyone with an interest in
teaching undergraduates with Sage will
On Jan 20, 12:58 pm, kcrisman wrote:
> This is getting OT, but I would say not necessarily. sws2tex makes a
> nice-looking thing that is like the worksheet - parses the HTML. It
> does not create a SageTeX document, but rather something that can
> immediately be LaTeXed up with or without Sage.
On Jan 20, 6:23 am, kcrisman wrote:
> PS Yes, Rob, that means I was able to get tex2sws to work on Mac,
> actually quite easily. Unfortunately, since Dan D. is constantly
> updating SageTeX, I'm pretty sure that the one I have in my TeX distro
> can't handle your more exotic examples (\begin{sag
On Jan 20, 6:07 am, john_perry_usm wrote:
> I don't completely agree with the concerns others have raised about
> cheating. One of the wonderful aspects of computer-based evaluation is
> the ability to randomize questions: not just the numbers within
> questions, but the questions themselves.
The
Jan - thanks for posting the announcement.
For anybody interested, feel free to ask general questions here, or if
you prefer, contact me off-list at bee...@ups.edu with more specific
questions. Teaching Sage at AIMS is a great experience if you can fit
it into your regular teaching schedule, an
For linear algebra, with a class size of about 20, I allow the
students to use calculators, or Sage on laptops (I'll probably move to
*requiring* Sage next time I teach the course). We have a campus-only
Sage server. I then sit in the back where I can watch their screens.
In other courses, I hav
After months of threats, I finally have a toolchain of conversion
software working acceptably and have begun adding actual Sage content
to open source textbooks. At
http://wiki.sagemath.org/devel/LatexToWorksheet
you will find:
1. In the Examples section, the first chapter of my linear algebra
Hi Karl-Dieter,
AIMS runs on a Northern hemisphere schedule. Roughly September 1
through May. Some of the lecturers from the UK have three weeks of
their time donated by their university so they can come and lecture
for that period.
The first few months the students take two courses at a time,
I've enjoyed seeing developers report themselves as on a "leave of
absence." I've just back from a leave myself, but failed to notify
everyone in advance that I would be gone. So I will correct the
bureaucratic oversight by filing a report on my time away. ;-)
I spent October and November at th
But I think it can
be worked around and just delegated to jsMath for a more humane
treatment.
Thanks for the report.
Rob
On Aug 28, 2:29 pm, mhampton wrote:
> Here's one from chapter 1:
>
> http://www.d.umn.edu/~mhampton/chapter1_firefox_mac.png
>
> -Marshall
>
> O
maybe its platform specific.
>
> I really appreciate the effort you are putting in to open texts.
>
> -Marshall
>
> On Aug 27, 9:37 pm, Rob Beezer wrote:
>
> > I've converted Tom Judson's open-source Abstract Algebra textbook
> > (http://abstract.pugetsoun
I've converted Tom Judson's open-source Abstract Algebra textbook
(http://abstract.pugetsound.edu) from Latex to a series of Sage worksheets (one
per chapter) with almost no compromises (ie the same source also builds a
faithful PDF). Cross-worksheet links are not supported yet in the notebook,
Thanks for posting these, Mike.
I'll add that the worksheet about adding pictures can be generalized
to help you to understand how to add most anything you have ever seen
on a web page. Another PREP participant, Barbara Margolius, used
Mike's worksheet as a springboard to figure out how to add Fl
Yes, the Georgia Tech list is very good. But be careful, the books
are "free" but do not always have open licenses and the authors retain
copyright. Read the first paragraph of
http://www.math.unl.edu/~tshores1/linalgtext.html
for a cautionary tale about "free" textbooks.
Jason Grout's list is
Apologies for spamming multiple Sage groups, but I thought folks would like to
hear about his:
http://mathbuntu.org
Basically a script for (K)Ubuntu that automates pulling down and installing a
variety of math software (Sage, Geogebra, Maxima, R, Octave) and about ten free
university-level ma
My students who have been using Sage all year for abstract algebra
have taken to using Sage notation in their proofs, such as QQ and ZZ
for the rationals and integers, rather than blackboard bold like I use
in class. Which I take as a good sign (of something).
But yesterday, a student struggling
On Apr 15, 12:28 pm, kcrisman wrote:
> Very interesting. I would point out that it is a shame that there is
> nothing on Integral Domains, quite possibly because Sage has not that
> much useful to say about them per se (or UFDs or Euc. Domains...)?
Not so much a lack of support in Sage, but the
I've about finished up a serious run of using Sage in a course about
rings, domains, vector spaces, fields, posets, Boolean algebra and
Galois theory. I've learned a lot myself about Sage, and will
probably greatly spruce-up these resources when I use them a second
time. But I though folks might
Nicely done!
It will very soon be possible to add interacts to the Sage library
itself.
http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/8488 has a positive review,
so should be merged in the next release. This could (and should!) be
one of the first entries, in what hopefully will be a flood of
intera
On Mar 30, 10:20 am, William Stein wrote:
> sage: log(QQ[cos(pi/9)].degree(),2) in ZZ
> False
Yes, that's better (and more expressive).
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Is, of course, impossible, with the usual example being that 60
degrees cannot be trisected, since 20 degrees is not constructible,
since the the cosine of 20 degrees is not constructible, since
adjoining the cosine of 20 degrees to the rationals creates a field
extension whose degree is not a powe
> m.apply_map(), I believe off-hand.
That's it. Not sure why I didn't see that. Sorry for the noise.
Thanks,
Rob
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Jason,
On Mar 24, 9:26 pm, Jason Grout wrote:
> Scipy/numpy is much closer to MATLAB in that respect. You can't do
> sin(m) (where m is a matrix) meaningfully in Sage yet. In scipy/numpy,
> it would give you the sin of each element.
Is there a way to do something like m.map(sin)? Should ther
Jorge,
vector and matrix objects as described here are Sage constructions.
Behind the scenes different packages might do the computations (such
as numpy).
I don't know MATLAB, but here's a way to square every entry of a
matrix ("process the data"). Might be an easier way that I don't
know.
sage
Download the worksheet as a *.sws file. This is just a zip archive.
Unpack it (possibly by renaming it first to have a .zip suffix).
You'll find a "data" subdirectory in there that should have the file
you want.
OR, open the worksheet in the notebook and look at the four drop-down
boxes right und
Mike,
Forgot to add. Feel free to cc me on any tickets along these lines
that is ready for a review.
Rob
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Hi Mike,
First, thanks for your work on this.
An implementation of finite abelian groups would be at the top of my
list. Folklore has it many have tried - not sure just where it gets
hard. Then build the group of units mod n on top of that for its own
sake and as a demonstration of the more abs
I guess I can comment on some of this.
semerikov is not me. So either (a) somebody else posted this, or (b)
the "last edited" portion was changed by someone editing it. I notice
the posted version has output for each cell, which is not how the
"original" of this is/was distributed.
I post my "p
I haven't checked, but try grouping the plots together,
(plot(1/t,.1,8)+plot(1/t,1/2,1,fill=true)).show()
Rob
On Feb 8, 5:47 am, Dana Ernst wrote:
> Forgive my ignorance and for asking such a silly question...
>
> Today in Calc II, I'm introducing the natural log as an integral. I'd like
> to
Undoubtedly, Jason mentioned Stephen Pav's numerical analysis text,
which is open-source. You could translate the examples from Octave to
Sage
Discussion Group:
http://groups.google.com/group/numas_text
Source:
http://bitbucket.org/shabbychef/numas_text/
Rob
On Feb 7, 8:11 am, Dana Ernst
And to amplify what Jason and Karl have said, if you are trying to
look at a worksheet that is an attachment on the wiki, you need to
first click the link, and then you'll get a page with a prominent blue
box saying "Download." Do whatever you need to do to copy that link
(like a right-click and a
On Feb 3, 6:37 am, Dana Ernst wrote:
> A worksheet that includes basic stuff like "click on the blue horizontal line
>to obtain a new cell" would be great.
Not exactly what you want, but this is an introductory demo I did for
mathematics students (any course):
http://buzzard.ups.edu/stbseminar/I
On Jan 21, 7:50 am, john_perry_usm wrote:
> Has anyone done this before?
I have graded before, but not given a talk.
> Is anyone else going to the AP reading?
I did this about 10 years ago. My recollections are that it was very
prestigious for the high school teachers that were selected to gra
A final draft of this proposal is available at:
http://buzzard.ups.edu/private/nsf-ccli-summary.pdf
http://buzzard.ups.edu/private/nsf-ccli-proposal.pdf
Comments, corrections, typos, nits would all be welcome. You can post
them here, or send them to Rob Beezer through Friday
evening, and after
Hi Dana,
1. Backslashes
At the Sage command line the help shows the two backslashes, but in
the notebook the help gets Sphinx-icated (which is very nice!) but the
double slash gets clobbered. LaTeX, escape codes, Python string,
Python raw strings, Sphinx are all interacting improperly here. I'm
I'm giving a short (15 min) talk at the annual US mathematics meetings
in San Francisco next week, about converting textbooks into Sage
worksheets. It's more a preview of what is possible, rather than
final report.
Here's links to the slides and a demo Sage worksheet that is suppose
to look like
> When I typed latex.add_to_preamble() I received a message saying that I
> needed to provide two parameters. When I typed the command without the (), I
> got:
>
> \newcommand{\Bold}[1]{\mathbf{#1}}\hbox{ < bound method Latex.add_to_preamble
> of < sage.misc.latex.Latex instance at 0x10af7d
Sage documentation is written in a markup language called ReST
(ReStructured Text), so look at any source file for Sage to see
examples.
Sphinx will turn it into html, pdf, etc. It is a converter.
Or something close to that.
On Jan 5, 12:45 pm, Dana Ernst wrote:
> > Sphinx can also use jsmath
TeX installed). I'm not really sure what you mean
> here.
You need to have LaTeX installed on the same machine where Sage is
executing, and it needs to be on your path so Sage can find it.
> > In fact, there is an option to draw graphs using TikZ and display the
> > result
Hi Dana,
Yes, "converting textbooks into notebooks" is exactly right. I'm able
to do this right now on a small-scale using a custom script, but it
takes some fiddling. So if you want to help blaze the trail, here are
some ideas. Also, I am hand-crafting a prototype of sorts for a talk
I'm givin
The announcement also mentions targeted topics, including:
"Rich and intuitive computing experiences for non-tech-savvy users"
Sounds to me like an excellent opportunity to fund some notebook
development, especially some of the requested features for
collaboration, or to make the notebook experie
On Nov 29, 1:18 am, Alasdair wrote:
> * Algorithmic generation of questions means hundreds of questions
> can be produced from a single template
I have an undergraduate student interested in a summer project writing
routines in Sage that will create "nice" problems in linear algebra.
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