[sage-edu] Re: book on sage

2008-04-04 Thread David Joyner
On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 9:24 PM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm just starting to write a book on Sage for an undergrad course. > It's supposed > to have a "narrative" and "personal" feel, much more so than the > tutorial or other > books. I guess it's a little like

[sage-edu] Jose Unpingco's Intro to SAGE video

2008-04-22 Thread David Joyner
Hi: Some of you may be interested in the SAGE video just produced by Jose Unpingco, aimed at the first time SAGE user. It's been posted to http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/wdj/expository/unpingco/ More will be added later (I hope!). - David J

[sage-edu] Re: Solving contour integrals in SAGE

2008-05-12 Thread David Joyner
I think this question is better posed on sage-support, which I am cc'ing. sage-edu is about teaching with SAGE. Am I correct in assuming you have a parameterization of your line integral (with parameter q) and so you can write the contour integral as int_a^b f(q) dq after some substitutions? I'

[sage-edu] SAGE at Jan 2009 AMS meeting

2008-05-13 Thread David Joyner
(sceduled for on Jan 2nd, in the afternoon). Possibly there will be a booth as well, as there was last year. If you are a SAGE developer, could you please reply to this list (or just to me, if you prefer) if you are thinking of attending this meeting? - David Joyner

[sage-edu] Re: Solving contour integrals in SAGE

2008-05-13 Thread David Joyner
)/r^2 + ...) ds > I'll be very grateful if you post a sage code of decision of this > problem.. > > > On 12 май, 23:38, "David Joyner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think this question is better posed on sage-support, which I am cc'

[sage-edu] Re: matrix over the booleans

2008-05-14 Thread David Joyner
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 6:29 AM, Pedro Patricio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > hi all... i am sure you can easily help me with this one. > > how can i define a matrix over the booleans? i know this is trivially > done over ZZ and so forth. If by booleans you mean GF(2), then just replace ZZ by

[sage-edu] Re: matrix over the booleans

2008-05-14 Thread David Joyner
; but i would like to take A over the booleans right from the begining. > > thanks > pedro > > > On 14 Maio, 13:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > David Joyner wrote: > > > > > On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 6:29 AM, Pedro Patricio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrot

[sage-edu] Re: concentrated sage presentation (flier)

2008-05-14 Thread David Joyner
I agree with Karl that this is great work. Thank you. Please translate it into English! On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 2:08 AM, Jurgis Pralgauskis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I made a sage flyer with intro + examples > for my uni students conference (but some professors also got intereste

[sage-edu] sage video #2 by Jose Unpingco

2008-05-20 Thread David Joyner
Hi: Jose Unpingco has created his second video for SAGE. I posted a copy to http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/wdj/expository/unpingco/ This video, like the first one, is distributed under the open source Attribution 3.0 license. - David Joyner

[sage-edu] sage video #2 by Jose Unpingco

2008-05-20 Thread David Joyner
Hi: Jose Unpingco has created his second video for SAGE. I posted a copy to http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/wdj/expository/unpingco/ This video, like the first one, is distributed under the open source Attribution 3.0 license. - David Joyner

[sage-edu] Re: sage video #2 by Jose Unpingco

2008-05-21 Thread David Joyner
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 9:15 AM, Harald Schilly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On May 20, 7:35 pm, "David Joyner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi: >> Jose Unpingco has created his second video for SAGE. ... > > great! i hope it gets posted to sho

[sage-edu] Re: Use of SAGE for intro physics class at Harvard -- security issues?

2008-07-10 Thread David Joyner
Marshall Hampton and William Stein probably know more but I have used SAGE for a differential equations class and can tell you that, in my experience, if you encourage them (nicely) to install SAGE on their own machine the majority will do so. I also asked a relatively extroverted student from eac

[sage-edu] Re: call for success stories

2008-07-15 Thread David Joyner
In teaching: I used SAGE for some sections of a differential equations course I was teaching last fall. Wasn't sure if the students would just "take the hit" and refuse to learn SAGE so I made the assignments worth very little and very easy. Also, I made extra assignments for extra credit. It turn

[sage-edu] Re: [sage-devel] AMS meeting in DC

2008-07-18 Thread David Joyner
Thanks. Besides the SAGE booth, here are other SAGE-related events at the DC meeting: http://wiki.sagemath.org/ams-sage http://wiki.sagemath.org/maa-sage On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 6:31 PM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I just want to let people know that I definitely plan t

[sage-edu] Re: Review needed on 3 worksheets

2008-08-25 Thread David Joyner
I looked at the first one. Looks interesting, even though my French is so bad, I can't say anything about the content. Any chance they will be translated? On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 4:48 PM, Philippe Saade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi group > > I hope i am posting to the right group ! > > I p

[sage-edu] Re: Arrows on plots

2008-09-02 Thread David Joyner
I don't know. Does the arrow command help? http://www.sagemath.org/doc/ref/module-sage.plot.plot.html#l2h-875 On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 9:36 AM, Skylar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > Sry for the double post, I am new to groups. I was just hoping that > someone could help me put arrows o

[sage-edu] Re: three famous plots of chaos

2008-09-13 Thread David Joyner
Thanks Pablo. Very useful. I posted this to the wiki: http://wiki.sagemath.org/pics Let me know if this is okay since everything posted to the wiki gets licensed under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ (So if you don't reply I will have to remove it.) - David Joyner On Sat, S

[sage-edu] Re: Interactive, online Calculus lessons

2008-09-19 Thread David Joyner
On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 9:47 AM, john_perry_usm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello all, > > A group member encouraged me to announce this here, so here goes. > > This past summer I worked on a project to develop interactive, online > lessons for Calculus I. (Calc II too as well, there's only so

[sage-edu] Re: Open source multivariable calc book

2008-10-02 Thread David Joyner
en posting some (IMHO) good FOSTs (free and open source texts:-) here: http://www.opensourcemath.org/books/ On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 4:19 PM, mhampton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ever since David Joyner updated Granville's Calculus book and

[sage-edu] Re: There is any way to be part of this community without being forced to have a google account

2008-10-08 Thread David Joyner
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 7:52 PM, Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi All, > > Congrats for Sage and this mailing list. I'm using Sage + TeXmacs + > Connexions projects with my students to teach linear algebra and > differential calculus. I have made a Virtual version of

[sage-edu] Re: A problem solving an exercise of vectors

2008-10-08 Thread David Joyner
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 7:24 PM, DJDANG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello everyone, > I'm sure someone can help me to solve this problem I'm having right > now. It's about vectors and it's really easy when you do it on paper > but it becomes a little tricky when you try to solve it in sage. > >

[sage-edu] Re: Open math curriculum project..

2008-10-14 Thread David Joyner
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 3:51 AM, Marty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This post is technically a bit off topic, but William suggested that > there are many people on this group who have technical expertise in > mathematics and technology, and a passion for open education > resources. Interesting

[sage-edu] Re: Fwd: Details for PNW-MAA 2009 meeting

2008-10-18 Thread David Joyner
If it were me, I'd mention the DE and calc notes at http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/wdj/teaching/calc1-sage/ http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/wdj/teaching/calc2-sage/ http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/wdj/teaching/DiffyQ/ That's just me:-) On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 2:23 AM, William Stei

[sage-edu] class grade book in Sage?

2008-10-22 Thread David Joyner
rted to Sage somehow. For example, I know nothing about moodle. Does anyone know if moodle can be used for this? - David Joyner --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-edu" group. To post to this

[sage-edu] Re: class grade book in Sage?

2008-10-22 Thread David Joyner
Just a few more links: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/xlwt and a python-excel googlegroups list: http://groups.google.com/group/python-excel On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 8:06 AM, David Joyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi: > > Just an idea for an education-related Sage project that I

[sage-edu] Re: class grade book in Sage?

2008-10-22 Thread David Joyner
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 8:05 PM, mhampton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Somebody on the IRC sage-devel channel was asking about moodle/sage > integration a couple of days ago. > > On one hand, it certainly makes sense not to try to create our own > course management software when there are good e

[sage-edu] Re: class grade book in Sage?

2008-10-22 Thread David Joyner
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 11:15 PM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 7:59 PM, mhampton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> That looks promising, although it might take a lot of work to >> integrate it into sage in a useful way. I dislike perl enough that >> that tas

[sage-edu] Re: Fwd: Details for PNW-MAA 2009 meeting

2008-10-28 Thread David Joyner
called 8th Avenue (now University way). The old name may > be on the map. > > Best wishes, > Stephen Glasby > > c.c. Dan Curtis, Chair Local Organizing Committee > > > -- > From: *William Stein* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 11:23 PM &g

[sage-edu] Re: Question on Lie Groups/Algebras

2008-11-10 Thread David Joyner
This group is for education-related questions, so I'm cross-posting to sage-support. First, dio you know about the Lie manual at http://www-math.univ-poitiers.fr/~maavl/LiE/? It is only in dvi form. If you need a pdf, just ask. On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 11:29 PM, RamBo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

[sage-edu] Re: Sage academic setup experiences.

2008-12-04 Thread David Joyner
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 11:56 PM, lfmartins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'd like to get input on how people has set up sage in academic > environments. To be more concrete, let me tell my ideas on how to set > up sage in my department, and what the problems are.. > > Currently, we have labs for

[sage-edu] Re: Sage academic setup experiences.

2008-12-04 Thread David Joyner
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 11:56 PM, lfmartins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'd like to get input on how people has set up sage in academic > environments. To be more concrete, let me tell my ideas on how to set > up sage in my department, and what the problems are.. > > Currently, we have labs for

[sage-edu] Re: slightly off-topic: sage coloring book

2008-12-04 Thread David Joyner
This is great Marshall! Do you have the Sage code to go along with the figures? On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 5:13 PM, mhampton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've been working on a mathematical coloring book, with the pictures > created using Sage. It still needs some work but I've put a > preliminar

[sage-edu] Re: slightly off-topic: sage coloring book

2008-12-05 Thread David Joyner
y interests > you. The Sierpinski gasket and the Koch snowflake, please:-) > > -Marshall > > On Dec 4, 6:39 pm, "David Joyner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> This is great Marshall! >> >> Do you have the Sage code to go along with the figures? >>

[sage-edu] Re: slightly off-topic: sage coloring book

2008-12-05 Thread David Joyner
. Thanks. It's added to the bottom of http://wiki.sagemath.org/pics > > Cheers, > Marshall > > On Dec 5, 5:11 pm, "David Joyner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I fiddled with your Sierpinski code (see attached) and loaded it into GIMP >> and >&g

[sage-edu] Re: Numerical Methods Resources

2008-12-06 Thread David Joyner
On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 4:57 AM, Tim Lahey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I ran across this web site the other day: > > http://numericalmethods.eng.usf.edu/index.html > > which has a lot of information on teaching > numerical methods and it discusses a number of > packages (Maple, Matlab, MathCAD,

[sage-edu] numerical methods and Sage

2008-12-06 Thread David Joyner
e-edu email list (where your webiste was recently discussed). That is the list devoted to education-related Sage development. Thank you for your time and consideration. - David Joyner --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the G

[sage-edu] Re: slightly off-topic: sage coloring book

2008-12-06 Thread David Joyner
Hi Rob: Just email it to me and I'll post it to the wiki. BTW, I used several Barnsley ferns in Sage, GIMP and inkscape to create this http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/wdj/art/barnsley-fern-xmas4c.png The Barnsley fern code is here: http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/wdj/art/barnsley-fern.s

[sage-edu] Re: polynomial ring

2008-12-07 Thread David Joyner
sage: R. = PolynomialRing(IntegerModRing(5),"x") sage: f = 1-x+6*x^5; f x^5 + 4*x + 1 Type "PolynomialRing?" for more examples. (This is more of a question for sage-support than sage-edu.) On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 4:08 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > hallo > can someone tell

[sage-edu] Re: polynomial ring

2008-12-07 Thread David Joyner
=5 with coefficient > in z/7z > and these polynomial have no zeros in z/7z. > thank you again for your reply > > On Dec 7, 11:48 pm, "David Joyner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> sage: R. = PolynomialRing(IntegerModRing(5),"x") >> sage: f = 1-x+6*

[sage-edu] Re: numerical methods and Sage

2008-12-08 Thread David Joyner
ully, you will keep Sage in the back of your mind for future projects. > > Let me know at which university you are using the resources. I posted a link to your webpage here: http://www.usna.edu/Users/math/wdj/teach/sm212/index.html#links > Sincerely > Autar > > > > --

[sage-edu] Re: Sage academic setup experiences.

2008-12-09 Thread David Joyner
Thanks very much for this William! I'll try to get a sysadmin to install it somewhere locally. On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 1:14 AM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I posted a tarball of the vmware server configuration used for sagenb.org > here: > > http://sage.math.washington.edu/home

[sage-edu] Re: Seasonal SAGE poster

2008-12-13 Thread David Joyner
Awesome - thanks! On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 7:58 AM, Georg Muntingh wrote: > > I love the idea! I took it one step further and quickly hacked > together a Sage worksheet -- although it is basically just Python -- > that replaces each triangle with a picture: > > * Example: http://folk.uio.no/georg

[sage-edu] Re: Sage academic setup experiences.

2008-12-19 Thread David Joyner
On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 1:09 AM, William Stein wrote: > > On 12/4/08, William Stein wrote: >> On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 9:51 AM, Luiz Felipe Martins >> wrote: >>> >>> I'd love to try that, actually. Could you send me what I need and, >>> perhaps, a few pointers? >> >> Sure, but it will have to wait

[sage-edu] Re: Sage academic setup experiences.

2008-12-20 Thread David Joyner
On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 12:26 AM, William Stein wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 5:29 AM, David Joyner wrote: >> ... >> >> >> I have finally downloaded and uncompressed this on a machine in a >> lab here running ubuntu 8.04. I get lots of errors when I ru

[sage-edu] Re: conjugacy_classes_representative()

2008-12-24 Thread David Joyner
On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 7:15 AM, inestej wrote: > > Hi ! > > I am serarching for a function computing the representative of > conjugacy classes in sage. I tried these command : > > n=4 > S=SymmetricGroup(n) > ccn=S.conjugacy_classes_subgroups() > cc=S.conjugacy_classes_representatives() > > But t

[sage-edu] Re: Anyone using dSage on a cluster?

2008-12-24 Thread David Joyner
I have no idea. Maybe the page http://www.sagemath.org/doc/ref/module-sage.dsage.dsage.html helps? If not, maybe you could wait until after the winter break, when more people are reading email? On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 5:28 PM, A. Jorge Garcia wrote: > > Hello Everyone! > > I've been playing wit

[sage-edu] Re: conjugacy_classes_representative()

2008-12-24 Thread David Joyner
On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 1:46 PM, William Stein wrote: > >> >>> In addition, I am looking for a function to compute RightCoset of a >>> group. >> >> >> This is not implemented (yet). > > Is it possible using Gap? Yes, http://www.gap-system.org/Manuals/doc/htm/ref/CHAP037.htm#SECT007 sage: S =

[sage-edu] sage worksheet's by Prof Cha

2009-01-06 Thread David Joyner
, if anyone else has worksheets to contribute, it would be great if you would please post them somewhere (or ask me to posted them to the directory above, if it is easier) and announce them to this group. Thanks, David Joyner

[sage-edu] Re: Image processing

2009-01-09 Thread David Joyner
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 9:11 AM, lfmartins wrote: > > I'm trying to do image processing in Sage, and so far I have been able > to do something like this: > > import sympy.thirdparty > pyglet = sympy.thirdparty.import_thirdparty('pyglet') > from pyglet import image > fimg = open('.jpg','rb') > img

[sage-edu] Re: Image processing

2009-01-10 Thread David Joyner
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 5:13 AM, Alasdair wrote: > > Why not use octave for image processing? It can be run from within > Sage, and its image processing toolbox is very mature and functional. > From what I've seen of PIL, its functionality is outstripped by > octave. > > -Alasdair I don't know

[sage-edu] Re: Image processing

2009-01-10 Thread David Joyner
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 11:54 AM, Luiz Felipe Martins wrote: > > Thanks, I will try it. > > What I want do is pretty simple, simply open an image, add noise to it > and try error-correcting codes. I was able to do it easily with PIL. I Cool! Can you post a worksheet or (if you did it in the not

[sage-edu] Re: MathML

2009-01-11 Thread David Joyner
Support presentation mathml as output or content mathml as input? Maybe both? I was told by Steve Linton a few years ago that there is no Python wrapper for MathML but he thought one would be a good project. There is this Latex->mathml translator written in a "mini-language" designed to be easy t

[sage-edu] Re: Internal Server Error

2009-01-12 Thread David Joyner
I don't know the answer but really this is the wrong list for that sort of question, as this list is mostly for teachers who want to use Sage for their classes. You might have more luck with the sage-support list. On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 3:00 AM, loretta wrote: > > I'm on sidux (Debian sid, in

[sage-edu] Re: SEG-Y in SAGE

2009-01-14 Thread David Joyner
According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEG_Y, seg-y is a data format for geophysics. How do you plan on using this in Sage? On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 7:46 AM, leonardoparada wrote: > > Hello my name is Leonardo: > I would like learn more about work withs seg-y format in SAGE. > Any body workin

[sage-edu] draft of "Ani invitation to Sage"

2009-01-17 Thread David Joyner
Hi: I posted a draft of a hopefully motivating and low-level paper at http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/wdj/teaching/calc1-sage/an-invitation-to-sage.pdf It is designed to fit into a book on calculus with Sage, as a introductory chapter. I assume the reader is assumed to know little or no calc

[sage-edu] Re: draft of "Ani invitation to Sage"

2009-01-17 Thread David Joyner
"The Sage group" as author, as long as there are no objections, so anyone teaching a course can grab it, tweek it to their needs, and hand it out to their students as motivation. On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 6:58 PM, William Stein wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 2:50 PM, David Joyne

[sage-edu] Re: draft of "Ani invitation to Sage"

2009-01-17 Thread David Joyner
I think if you have jsmath installed then you can display output as latex in the notebook. On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 10:16 PM, A. Jorge Garcia wrote: > > I saw in this document a sample notebook() page that looked like latex > output. How is that done? > > TIA, > A. Jorge Garcia > calcp...@aol.co

[sage-edu] Re: draft of "Ani invitation to Sage"

2009-01-18 Thread David Joyner
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 12:15 AM, kcrisman wrote: > > > > On Jan 17, 7:57 pm, David Joyner wrote: >> Thanks for the quote (which I added) and the comment. >> >> Yes, I "borroewed" lines form your talks and Harald's talk and from >> our Notice

[sage-edu] Re: draft of "Ani invitation to Sage"

2009-01-18 Thread David Joyner
Actually, that screenshot is probably so old it should be redone anyway, so I'll use your code to do that. Thanks.! On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 8:14 PM, A. Jorge Garcia wrote: > > I got the "pretty print" to work with the show() command. In the > document cited above, the example with pretty print

[sage-edu] Re: draft of "Ani invitation to Sage"

2009-01-20 Thread David Joyner
xtent, it can read > and write to Microsoft Office formats as well." Thanks for these too! I haven't had problems with OO but if others do, it is a good idea to soften this a bit. > > The quotes are great, especially the Torvalds quote. > > john perry > > On Jan 17, 4

[sage-edu] Re: draft of "Ani invitation to Sage"

2009-01-21 Thread David Joyner
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 11:57 PM, john_perry_usm wrote: > > Hi, > >> You teach at West Point? > > I teach at USM (Southern Mississippi). Completely different part of > the country, but you have a point: they care about price, too. Maybe > more so; the local paper has been running a series of arti

[sage-edu] Re: Where books on how teach calculus/math with computer math soft...

2009-01-22 Thread David Joyner
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 5:10 PM, wrote: > In a message dated 1/22/2009 2:46:30 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, > seber...@spawar.navy.mil writes: > > I teach calculus with Sage. If there are any books on how to do this > better I'd love to hear about it. > > Have you looked on www.sagemath.org unde

[sage-edu] Re: [sage-devel] Re: Windows

2009-01-28 Thread David Joyner
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 1:32 PM, William Stein wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 10:29 AM, Alec Mihailovs wrote: >> >> Another alternative, for using Sage in class, instead of using a >> (non-existing) native Windows port, or one of the virtualizations, is to use >> it from a live CD, booting L

[sage-edu] Re: Group Theory Primer

2009-01-31 Thread David Joyner
Very nice - thank you for creating this! I hope you don't mind - I have taken advantage of your license and posted them to http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/wdj/teaching/worksheets/ as well. On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 12:39 AM, Rob Beezer wrote: > > I've written a short (14-page) primer on usin

[sage-edu] using Sage for student grade reports

2009-01-31 Thread David Joyner
from a spreadsheet. I have used made-up names and section numbers, so there is nothing private in the examples. If the docstrings or anything is confusing, let me know. - David Joyner --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the

[sage-edu] Re: [sage-devel] Integration syntax

2009-02-03 Thread David Joyner
I agree, some consistent syntax for multiple integrals is needed. For example, to me this seems strange: sage: x,y = var("x,y") sage: f = y*sin(x*y) sage: bool(diff(f,x,y) == diff(diff(f,x),y)) True sage: bool(integral(f,x,y) == integral(integral(f,x),y)) False At least, it is a possible source

[sage-edu] Re: [sage-devel] Integration syntax

2009-02-03 Thread David Joyner
a default value for the number of samples used to create the plot. Anyway, what Sympy has implemented currently is similar to what I was trying to say in the previous post. On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 7:44 AM, David Joyner wrote: > I agree, some consistent syntax for multiple integrals is needed.

[sage-edu] Re: sage-moodle integration

2009-02-15 Thread David Joyner
Hi Herli. There are people working on this, but off the top of my head I am not sure if they are members of this list or not. If no one replies within several days, I'll dig up emails and try to get your question to the right people or else send you their addresses. You might also search sage-edu

[sage-edu] Re: Vector Calculus, Interact Demos

2009-02-15 Thread David Joyner
Thanks! I created worksheets from them and posted them to http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/wdj/teaching/worksheets/beezer/ On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 7:04 PM, Rob Beezer wrote: > > I took some time the past couple of days to learn the interact setup, > and built a couple of demos for Monday's

[sage-edu] Re: Axis Label???

2009-02-27 Thread David Joyner
I typed axes search into the Sage search bar on the main sage webpage and got this: http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support/browse_thread/thread/454bf6640997d37b Does that help? If not, maybe other links your find that way help. On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 10:20 AM, M.E._Mac wrote: > > Is there

[sage-edu] Re: Sage Primers

2009-03-02 Thread David Joyner
Looks great! Thanks for starting this. A small suggestion - could you please post pdf's (or txt's) instead of rtf files? I converted the rtf for you (emailed separately to avoid clogging the list with attachments). Thanks again! On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 3:19 PM, ErikJacobson wrote: > > Sage docu

[sage-edu] Re: sagelet - calculus in two variables - differential

2009-03-09 Thread David Joyner
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 6:44 AM, Harald Schilly wrote: > > Hi, thx, but the correct URL is http://sagenb.org/home/pub/298/ This did not work for me, but the original one did. (FF, amd64 ubuntu 8.04) > > H > > On Mar 8, 10:37 pm, "ma...@mendelu.cz" wrote: >> Dear readers of this group, I wrote

[sage-edu] Re: sage-moodle integration

2009-03-27 Thread David Joyner
This sounds very interesting to me. If you can get something going, that would be great! On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 6:06 AM, Minh Nguyen wrote: > > Hi folks, > > On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 5:54 PM, Marshall Hampton wrote: >> >> I am interested in this too, although the way my university sets up >> it

Re: [sage-devel] Re: [sage-edu] Re: sage-moodle integration

2009-03-28 Thread David Joyner
On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 6:20 AM, pang wrote: > > Hello: > I'm now learning moodle as admin, and I would like to use another > kind of moodle integration, just to control access to the sage server > and to organize the notebooks. I have the following reasons: > > 1) Security: I've been told sag

[sage-edu] Re: East Coast Computer Algebra Day

2009-04-09 Thread David Joyner
If you could present a Sage poster at ECCAD I think that would be great. I'll be at the associated NSF workshop http://www4.ncsu.edu/~kaltofen/NSF_WS_ECCAD09_Itinerary.html and presenting on Friday I think but not presenting at ECCAD. BTW, I'll be around most of the day Saturday (have to leave a

[sage-edu] Re: grading homework

2009-04-13 Thread David Joyner
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 12:41 AM, William Stein wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm going to write something to make it easier to grade say 20-30 > homework assignments that are turned in as sage worksheets.  If any of Great! > you reading this have also graded homework turned in as Sage > worksheets, and h

[sage-edu] Re: Arbitrary precision in calculus

2009-04-13 Thread David Joyner
I guess it depends on what the questioner wants. If it is a definite integral with an exact answer (say pi) and they want to evaluate it in floating point to arbitrary precision then sage: RealField? explains how. If there have a defnite integral which perhaps cannot be computed exactly but the

[sage-edu] Re: MathFest

2009-04-17 Thread David Joyner
BTW, I've more-or-less finished the Differential Calculus and Sage book: http://wdjoyner.com/teach/calc1-sage/recent/calc1-sage-2009-4-13.pdf Before they would consider publishing it, JHUP required that the older "pure Granville+Sage examples" version be rewritten and changed to make the termino

[sage-edu] Re: unevaluated input (det, int, ....)

2009-04-21 Thread David Joyner
On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 12:42 PM, ma...@mendelu.cz wrote: > > Hell, I think that my question is related to > http://groups.google.cz/group/sage-support/browse_thread/thread/7cb33271dff797eb/878d6363dfad0d3f > > How can I write a function which takes determinant of matrix A below > and perfoms Lap

[sage-edu] Re: Grant for a sage server

2009-04-25 Thread David Joyner
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 3:53 AM, Gerald Smith wrote: > Hello Gentlemen! > > The dire and dirty deed is duly done.  I have set up a personal SAGE Math > server, and it should be currently running > at https://67.23.33.110:8000 > This is a MOSSO cloud server at RackSpace.  RackSpace has a good rep,

[sage-edu] Re: Grant for a sage server

2009-04-25 Thread David Joyner
Again, I'm not an expert on these matters but it seems to me upon reading "notebook?" that you need "accounts=True". Do you read it that way? On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Gerald Smith wrote: > Greetings! > > I used the following command to start up the notebook server: > notebook(address='

[sage-edu] Re: East Coast Computer Algebra Day

2009-05-01 Thread David Joyner
On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 9:06 AM, kcrisman wrote: > >> If you could present a Sage poster at ECCAD I think that would be great. > > I'll be bringing my laptop (now fine again after changing my default > nb.sobj save time!) and putting up some posters. > > Any recommendations on which ones to print

[sage-edu] Re: Linear Algebra QuickRef

2009-05-09 Thread David Joyner
Very nice! What about symbolic constructions? For example, sage: A = matrix([[x,1],[sin(x),e^x]]) sage: A.det() x*e^x - sin(x) sage: f(x) = A.det() sage: f(pi) e^pi*pi Should they be added? On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 1:00 AM, Rob Beezer wrote: > > I've put together a quick reference sheet (two pag

[sage-edu] Re: [sage-combinat-devel] Some Sage Lectures/Worksheets

2009-06-11 Thread David Joyner
duate > students and interested professors. I created a bunch of worksheets for > these lessons, and thought that maybe some of you might find them > useful. I grabbed problems and ideas from various sources, including > William Stein, David Joyner, Project Euler, Wikipedia, > > All

[sage-edu] Re: Notebook management instructions

2009-06-11 Thread David Joyner
I have to confess I don't understand your question. In case you are asking about folders for the notebooks (so you can put different groups of student's worksheets in them, for example), then that is not yet completely implemented, as far as I know. I think Mike Hansen is working on it in the Sage

[sage-edu] Re: Notebook management instructions

2009-06-11 Thread David Joyner
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Jurgis Pralgauskis wrote: > >> I have to confess I don't understand your question. > where could I find more information -- kind of manual? > I expect some topics to be covered: > how to administer nodebook (manage rights and so on)? http://www.sagemath.org/doc/re

[sage-edu] Re: Multiplying lists

2009-07-21 Thread David Joyner
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 6:56 PM, Mike wrote: > > Hi, I have a quick question. I'm fairly new to python and sage, and am > attempting to learn it to use in my engineering classes. My problem is > that I have 2 lists > x = [1, 2, 3] > y = [4, 5, 6] > and I would like to use them both in the same fun

[sage-edu] Re: Black body graph is sage with interact

2009-07-30 Thread David Joyner
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 11:27 PM, Minh Nguyen wrote: > > Hi Offray, > > On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 8:23 AM, Offray Vladimir Luna > Cárdenas wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> Two students are interested in making the graph of the black body[1][2] >> with Sage and making it interactive in the web. [2] contains, a

[sage-edu] Re: Educational Game - LightOut

2009-08-04 Thread David Joyner
Thanks for the link! Works in epiphany on an amd64 ubuntu machine. On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 2:59 AM, Rado wrote: > > Hello, > > Try the following game: > http://www.math.uiuc.edu/~rkirov2/lightout/lightout.html > > How many levels can you beat by hand? Can you make a simple Sage > script to solve t

[sage-edu] Re: Creating a collaborative version of Sage

2009-08-23 Thread David Joyner
On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 9:00 AM, John Faig wrote: > > Anyone interested in discussing a collaborative version of Sage?  I am > a math teacher and technology coordinator for 6-8 students.  I see > HUGE potential for Sage to become more of a collaborative environment > between a teacher and students

[sage-edu] Re: Creating a collaborative version of Sage

2009-08-23 Thread David Joyner
On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 10:04 AM, John Faig wrote: > > David, > ... > > 1. Improve the interface so that students can explore more easily. > This could be a  dropdown box that lists all mathematical operations > by concept.  For example, there could be an "arithmetic group" with > add, subtract,

[sage-edu] Re: log(x) versus ln(x)

2009-08-23 Thread David Joyner
On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 4:47 PM, William Stein wrote: > > Hi, > ... > > sage: latex(log(x)) > \ln\left(x\right) > > What the heck is up with that typesetting as "ln"? > > Besides being annoying, this is inconsistent because log(x) prints as > "log(x)" in sage. > > sage: log(x) > log(x) > > Does

[sage-edu] Re: Creating a collaborative version of Sage

2009-08-23 Thread David Joyner
On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 10:29 AM, David Joyner wrote: > On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 10:04 AM, John Faig wrote: >> >> David, >> > > ... > >> >> 1. Improve the interface so that students can explore more easily. >> This could be a  dropdown box that lists

[sage-edu] Re: installation

2009-09-05 Thread David Joyner
This is the list for using Sage in education. Perhaps the FAQ http://wiki.sagemath.org/faq might help or the REDME http://www.sagemath.org/bin/microsoft_windows/README.txt If not, maybe you could search the sage-support archives (see the search box on the main Sage page) or email sage-support you

[sage-edu] teaching scientific computing with Sage

2009-09-11 Thread David Joyner
Hi William: Is the latex source for the lecture notes referred to at http://wiki.wstein.org/2008/480a available? I hope to be teaching Coding theory and Python next semester, with a significant amount of Python in the course. You notes seem like a good place to start. - David --~--~-~--

[sage-edu] Re: integer, tostring, length?

2009-09-19 Thread David Joyner
Do you mean this? sage: n = 1234567890123456789 sage: len(str(n)) 19 On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 10:14 AM, wrote: > > Sorry, silly question: > > OK, I know I've done this in Sage before, but I can't remember for the > life of me how. > > I'm writing a program that computes large integers and test

[sage-edu] Re: inequalities

2009-09-20 Thread David Joyner
I don't know the answer, but maybe this is a way around it: sage: 23/10 in srange(3, step = 1/10) True You might also use this is discuss how numbers are represented in a computer (leading into how characters are represented in a computer., which might also spark an interesting class discussion.

[sage-edu] Re: Sage for the blind

2009-11-10 Thread David Joyner
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 10:17 AM, David Kohel wrote: > > Does anyone have any experience at all with the use of > Sage, or computer algebra in general, with blind  students? > > I would appreciate any information of experiences and or > references for understanding what input and output formats >

[sage-edu] Re: Jmol in web pages

2009-11-12 Thread David Joyner
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 11:16 AM, mhampton wrote: > > I thought this might be of some interest to people since I'm not sure > how well the process is documented. > > I wanted to make some vector field plots using Jmol and then put them > on a web page.  To do that, you have to get the zipped scri

[sage-edu] Re: Advice on adopting Sage in undergrad teaching?

2009-11-15 Thread David Joyner
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 6:12 PM, Colin Macdonald wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm looking for success stories from people who have used Sage in > their undergraduate teaching, particularly at the lower years. Some info is here: http://www.sagemath.org/library-books.html http://wiki.sagemath.org/Teaching_

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