[sage-edu] Re: Embedding 3d plots in a blog

2008-03-23 Thread William Stein
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 1:21 PM, Janzo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi again: > > I have explored a bit more Jmol. > I have tried a lot to show the pmesh file in a Jmol applet... I have > learned to open the pmesh file in the Jmol program (console command: > pmesh "my_sage_surface.pmesh") b

[sage-edu] sage-2.11 is out!

2008-03-30 Thread William Stein
* Alex Ghitza * Jason Grout * Marshall Hampton * Carlo Hamalainen * Mike Hansen * Ryan Hinton * David Joyner * Michael Kallweit * Emily Kirkman * Robert Miller * Joel Mohler * R. Rishikesh * David Roe * William Stein * Jaap Spies * Justin Walker * Carl Witty * Yi Qiang Cheers

[sage-edu] book on sage

2008-04-03 Thread William Stein
undergrads with a programming background, and (2) will be finished by June at the lastest.I'm posting it here as I write it: http://wiki.wstein.org/2008/480a/book Comments on the general structure, approach, etc., are welcome, before it is too late. -- William Stein Associate Prof

[sage-edu] Re: sage-2.11 is out!

2008-04-10 Thread William Stein
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 6:34 AM, chu-ching huang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > Thanks for this impressive packages. I has made a sage-2.11 module for > Live Slax Linux with little changes, > > update sympy to 0.5.13; > integrate VPython-4 beta, 3D visualization package popular used

[sage-edu] Re: book on sage

2008-05-08 Thread William Stein
On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 12:44 PM, Lars Fischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > I am reading the very interesting chapter about debugging in version > book5 from April 14, 2008. > On page 48: the first sentence in the second paragraph: > Put the Cython code (without bad.spyx. > I think yo

[sage-edu] Re: SAGE at Jan 2009 AMS meeting

2008-05-13 Thread William Stein
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 11:05 AM, David Joyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi: > > There will be 2 SAGE-related sessions at the next AMS national meeting. > One is an AMS session on SAGE and mathematical research > http://www.ams.org/amsmtgs/2110_special.html (not yet > scheduled for a sp

[sage-edu] Re: matrix over the booleans

2008-05-14 Thread William Stein
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 GF(2) in the

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

2008-05-14 Thread William Stein
2008/5/14 kcrisman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > On May 14, 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 >> interested)http://popmokslas.projektas.lt/failai/pytho

[sage-edu] Re: idea - more GUI for notebook UI: customizable menus (esp. for beginners)

2008-05-16 Thread William Stein
On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 7:43 PM, Jurgis Pralgauskis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > SAGE is big, time is limited. Python is easy, but not all students > know it and like writing code. > I'd like SAGE to have what wxMaxima is for Maxima. > > That is main actions can be achieved by clickin

[sage-edu] Re: idea - more GUI for notebook UI: customizable menus (esp. for beginners)

2008-05-16 Thread William Stein
On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 7:43 PM, Jurgis Pralgauskis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > SAGE is big, time is limited. Python is easy, but not all students > know it and like writing code. > I'd like SAGE to have what wxMaxima is for Maxima. > > That is main actions can be achieved by clickin

[sage-edu] Re: Multivariable calc course with Sage/Mathematica labs

2008-06-03 Thread William Stein
On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 9:56 AM, mhampton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Some folks might be interested in looking at the labs for my > multivariable calculus course this summer - I am offering parallel > versions in Mathematica and Sage. So far most of the students are > using the Sage versions a

[sage-edu] Re: Why SAGE as opposed to, say, SCILAB?

2008-07-07 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 9:09 AM, Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >... > At the moment I keep working with Scilab since I can work with it > without learning to much new things, but I have spend some time using > Sage and if Scilab 5 does not show the improvements I would like to > see I probably

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

2008-07-10 Thread William Stein
g in the Sciences and > Social Sciences > Instructional Computing Group > FAS Information Technology > Harvard University > > 617-495-7571 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://icg.fas.harvard.edu > > > > -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Was

[sage-edu] Re: Why SAGE as opposed to, say, SCILAB?

2008-07-21 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 6:03 PM, Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Just to finalize the previous discussion. I have made the decision > that I will focus on using python for numerical computations. My > decision is based on the fact that > A: it is using python rather than it is own obscure l

[sage-edu] Re: Reducing installation size on Mac OS X

2008-08-26 Thread William Stein
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 5:52 AM, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > They are all Intel machines. If you could build a smaller binary for > us, that would be great. Thanks again for your help. > > - John Bestoso Hi, I just spent a while looking at this, and I'm really really nervous about shri

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

2008-09-13 Thread William Stein
nd > #the origin when z0=0 > > N=100#resolution of the plot > L=50#limits the number of iterations > x0=-2; x1=1; y0=-1.5; y1=1.5 #boundary of the region plotted > R=3 #stop after leaving the circle of radius R > > m=matrix(N,N) > for i

[sage-edu] Re: material for sage screencast

2008-09-16 Thread William Stein
way, I'm talking about SAGE 3.1. > > thanks in advance. > > > > > -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to th

[sage-edu] Re: material for sage screencast

2008-09-16 Thread William Stein
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 11:24 AM, Robert Bradshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sep 16, 2008, at 10:42 AM, Jose wrote: > >> >> All: >> >> I'm thinking about putting together another screencast in the same >> vein as >> >> http://showmedo.com/videos/video?name=2450010&fromSeriesID=245 >> >> on

[sage-edu] Fwd: [sage-devel] Sage as a language option on Project Euler

2008-09-16 Thread William Stein
r some solutions, be sure to select it as your language option.) Apologies if this should rather have been posted somewhere else... (please let me know where or repost). Regards, Peter -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washingt

[sage-edu] Re: material for sage screencast

2008-09-16 Thread William Stein
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 1:10 PM, Jose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sorry for the confusion regarding range(). > > Are there other idioms not in standard python that should be > highlighted? > > Thanks! sage: 1/3 1/3# instead of 0 sage: 1/3.0 0.333 but in Python: >>> 1/3.0 0.3

[sage-edu] Re: Why do I use Sage?

2008-10-01 Thread William Stein
ge, in my eyes, is that it is based on one of the > most prevalent and easiest-to-use computer languages around, Python. > Students that learn to use Mathematica and Maple learn a language that > they, in most likelyhood, will never use once they graduate. However, > Python is used in

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

2008-10-03 Thread William Stein
lot to know the desired level of support. William > > Cheers, > Marshall > > On Oct 2, 3:44 pm, "David Joyner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> That's on my to-do list as well. >> >> BTW, the part of Granville's text which I worked on was just the

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

2008-10-09 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 8:04 PM, David Joyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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

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

2008-10-20 Thread William Stein
t SAGE. From my experience > organizing two of these conferences, you'll have folks from a wide > range of institutions represented, including many community colleges. > But everybody will be interested in new ways to improve their > teaching. > > Rob > > On

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

2008-10-22 Thread William Stein
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 task doesn't appeal much to me. > > I wonder how hard it would be to start adding some

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

2008-10-22 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 8:21 PM, David Joyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 lo

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

2008-10-28 Thread William Stein
comparisons. I am very excited to learn more about Sage. You and your colleagues have made great progress! Best wishes, Stephen P.S. By the way I got the error: www.sagenb.org uses an invalid security certificate. The certificate is not trusted because it is self signed. So I have not checked

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

2008-11-02 Thread William Stein
Hi Stephen, For my MAA course: TITLE: Using Sage to Spice up your Undergraduate Courses ABSTRACT: Sage (http://sagemath.org) is an open source mathematical software project that I started in 2005, which has around 50 active developers and funding from NSF, Google, Microsoft, and many other org

[sage-edu] Fwd: 2 new messages in 1 topic - digest

2008-11-12 Thread William Stein
Lie Groups/Algebras http://groups.google.com/group/sage-combinat-devel/browse_thread/thread/2d660d4d6bc3a581?hl=en == == 1 of 2 == Date: Mon, Nov 10 2008 10:24 pm From: mabshoff On Nov 10, 10:01 pm, "William

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

2008-12-04 Thread William Stein
> that they might actually do more than they expect... and that's a good >> thing. >> >> - kcrisman >> >> > >> > > > > -- > "The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and > not merely as means to other thin

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

2008-12-04 Thread William Stein
ng, > which starts eating into the RAM available. I should probably use the > "timeout" option in my notebooks, which would solve that problem. > > I email my students the IP address and port, or tell them during > class, and of course use the secure option, and I haven&#x

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

2008-12-04 Thread William Stein
r, and I won't until tomorrow (Friday). William > > On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 11:59 AM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 7:50 AM, Luiz Felipe Martins >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> Thanks for the r

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

2008-12-08 Thread William Stein
On 12/4/08, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 9:51 AM, Luiz Felipe Martins > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> I'd love to try that, actually. Could you send me what I need and, >> perhaps, a few pointers? > > Sure, bu

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

2008-12-08 Thread William Stein
On 12/4/08, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 9:51 AM, Luiz Felipe Martins > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> I'd love to try that, actually. Could you send me what I need and, >> perhaps, a few pointers? > > Sure, bu

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

2008-12-19 Thread William Stein
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 5:29 AM, David Joyner wrote: > > 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

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

2008-12-20 Thread William Stein
On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 2:08 AM, David Joyner wrote: > > 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

[sage-edu] Re: conjugacy_classes_representative()

2008-12-24 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 5:18 AM, David Joyner wrote: > > 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_class

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

2008-12-28 Thread William Stein
server from the local network. I am asking a > student to attempt to access it from the outside world. > > Please send me any comments, suggestions. > > On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 12:54 PM, William Stein wrote: >> >> On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 9:40 AM, mhampton wrote: >> > &g

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

2008-12-28 Thread William Stein
On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 8:23 PM, Luiz Felipe Martins wrote: > > Please send me any comments, suggestions. On page 1 you say "Notice that the virtual machine runs the 32 bit version of the OS. I tried using the 64 bit version but it didn't work." Perhaps you should change the pdf to say that it

[sage-edu] Re: Reminder AMS/MAA meetings

2009-01-05 Thread William Stein
t resolved, post here instead: http://wiki.sagemath.org:9001/ It's the same wiki, but shouldn't have the surge protection issue. > > - kcrisman > > > -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org --~--~-~--~

[sage-edu] Re: Many variables?

2009-01-06 Thread William Stein
On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 8:06 AM, lfmartins wrote: > > What would be the best way, for students, to define functions of an > arbitrary (but fixed) number of variables? > > What I am using right now is a function: > > def makevars(prefix, n): >return var(' '.join([prefix+str(i) for i in range(n)

[sage-edu] Re: MathML

2009-01-11 Thread William Stein
On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 6:23 AM, mhampton wrote: > > I thought for the record I would mention that at the joint meetings > someone asked why we didn't support MathML. My impression is that > someone began to, but lack of demand or interest has resulted in that > stagnating. Here's the history o

[sage-edu] Re: Howto setup local sagenb?

2009-01-13 Thread William Stein
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 5:35 AM, kcrisman wrote: > > > > On Jan 12, 8:42 pm, "Luiz Felipe Martins" > wrote: >> I went through the process of setting up a notebook server a few weeks ago, >> and wrote some notes. Since I can't seem to find the message with the final >> version of my notes, I'm at

[sage-edu] Re: Sage 3.1.1 liveCD

2009-01-13 Thread William Stein
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 4:27 PM, A. Jorge Garcia wrote: > > OK, I was trying out the liveCD and it seems like a nice way to have a > Sage environment on the fly. It can set up a notebook() environment > rather quickly. > > I ran into a few problems: > > For example, I can use plot() without a pr

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

2009-01-14 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 7:19 AM, David Joyner wrote: > > 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? > You might try installing this python module, which should work fine in Sage: http://segymat.sourceforge.net

[sage-edu] Re: www.sagenb.org

2009-01-15 Thread William Stein
t; Applied Mathematics, Physics & Computer Science > Baldwin Senior High School & Nassau Community College > > calcp...@aol.com > http://calcpage.tripod.com > ftp://centauri.baldwinschools.net > > > > > > A Good Credit Score i

[sage-edu] Re: www.sagenb.org

2009-01-15 Thread William Stein
#x27;s big integer arithmetic and is both very tightly coded and has > a wide range of asymptotically fast algorithms, which shouldn't > impact this case, but for another example: > > sage: time a = M37^2 > CPU times: user 0.09 s, sys: 0.01 s, total: 0.10 s > Wall time: 0

[sage-edu] Re: www.sagenb.org

2009-01-15 Thread William Stein
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 4:30 PM, wrote: > In a message dated 1/15/2009 7:18:53 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, > wst...@gmail.com writes: > > Computing M with Sage takes less than *one second* for me on sagenb.org: > > Wow, what algorithm is being used? I don't know. It's whatever is in GMP: ht

[sage-edu] Re: www.sagenb.org

2009-01-15 Thread William Stein
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 4:49 PM, Robert Bradshaw wrote: > > On Jan 15, 2009, at 4:39 PM, William Stein wrote: > >> On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Robert Bradshaw >> wrote: >>> >>> On Jan 15, 2009, at 4:10 PM, calcp...@aol.com wrote: >>> >

[sage-edu] Re: www.sagenb.org

2009-01-17 Thread William Stein
On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 11:15 AM, Robert Bradshaw wrote: > > On Jan 17, 2009, at 5:51 AM, calcp...@aol.com wrote: > >> BTW, if www.sagenb.org runs on a single PC with a quadcore, the >> question still remains, is Sage multicore aware without dSage or are >> you using dSage here? > > Some of the u

[sage-edu] Re: Sage 3.2.3 32bit or 64bit? That is the question....

2009-01-17 Thread William Stein
> calcp...@aol.com > http://calcpage.tripod.com > > Teacher & Professor > Applied Mathematics, Physics & Computer Science > Baldwin Senior High School & Nassau Community College > > > -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of W

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

2009-01-17 Thread William Stein
On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 2:50 PM, David Joyner wrote: > > 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 > introductor

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

2009-01-17 Thread William Stein
On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 2:50 PM, David Joyner wrote: > > 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 > introductor

[sage-edu] Re: Sage + CMS -> 6-12+education curriculum

2009-01-19 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 7:44 PM, Skylar wrote: > > Are there any current open source spin-offs that attempt to use sage > for 6-12+ education ie, sage+CMS? Does that mean grade 6 to grade 12? CMS = content management system? Do you have good examples of what you're imagining but not using Sage?

[sage-edu] Re: Lucas-Lehmer Test

2009-01-23 Thread William Stein
re quickly than ... say checking for divisibility by primes up to sqrt(2^p - 1). > > Anyone recall the correct algorithm for this test? > > TIA, > A. Jorge Garcia > calcp...@aol.com > http://calcapge.tripod.com > > Applied Math, Physics and CompSci > Baldwin High Scho

[sage-edu] Re: Lucas-Lehmer Test

2009-01-26 Thread William Stein
quivalent to the one given at the beginning > of this thread is it? > > TIA, > A. Jorge Garcia > calcp...@aol.com > http://calcpage.tripod.com > > Teacher & Professor > Applied Mathematics, Physics & Computer Science > Baldwin Senior Hi

[sage-edu] Re: Sage graphical capabilities

2009-02-03 Thread William Stein
On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 6:00 PM, marcos wrote: > > Last time I checked I did not see anything regarding extensive 3D > visualization for SAGE. I was wondering whether it is something that > some one might be working on? Or whether this will be developed in the > future... More specifically, I woul

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

2009-03-11 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Rob Beezer wrote: > > Robert and Jason, > > 1.  Thanks for the ideas and suggestions.  I can probably do something > useful with Robert's parametric plot suggestion for the moment. > > 2.  Yes, Jason, Mathematica's RegionFunction is exactly what I had in > mind a

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

2009-03-14 Thread William Stein
rtion of the surface >> shaped like a Pringle's chip. >> >> I'll talk about extremes along the boundary as we cover Lagrange >> multipliers tomorrow.  Available at: >> >> http://sagenb.org/home/pub/348/ >> > >> > > > > -- Willia

[sage-edu] Re: some questions

2009-04-06 Thread William Stein
accounts on sagenb.org, and if they want to make more serious use of Sage, then definitely download and install it. By the way, other people have written to me about that State Math Community College and suggested perhaps I'll get invited to speak about Sage next year (it's too late this

[sage-edu] grading homework

2009-04-12 Thread William Stein
ebook would work, please share them in this thread. William -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-

[sage-edu] Elementary Number Theory quickref

2009-04-13 Thread William Stein
Hi, I made an "Elementary Number Theory" quickref, which I've posted here: http://wiki.sagemath.org/quickref william -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ Yo

[sage-edu] Re: Arbitrary precision in calculus

2009-04-13 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 1:02 PM, David Joyner wrote: > > 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 hav

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

2009-04-22 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 9:35 PM, Pong wrote: > > Hi Rob, > >    Thanks for letting me know. So sagenb is supported by Sun and NSF > now? Yes, by Sun, NSF, and Univ. of Washington (who pays the bandwidth). > In that case, I certainly don't feel gulity to have my students > sign up and use it th

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

2009-04-25 Thread William Stein
  I need to look > into that.  I am not sure what all the security measures RackSpace has going > but that may be a factor. Right now, feel free to play with it as you like. > I would very much appreciate an informed opinion on the functionality of my > toy and security issues. And I offe

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

2009-04-25 Thread William Stein
rote: >> Greetings! >> >> I used the following command to start up the notebook server: >> notebook(address='67.23.33.110:8000', secure=True) >> >> ThankYou, >> >> Jerry >> >> >> > >> > > > > -- Willi

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

2009-04-28 Thread William Stein
> p; > /home/sagemath/sage-3.4.1/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/sage/server/notebook/run_notebook.py in run(port) > 257 e = os.system(cmd) >     258 if e == 256: > --> 259 raise socket.error > 260 return True > 261 # end of inner function run > > > error: > sage: > > __

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

2009-04-28 Thread William Stein
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Gerald Smith wrote: > Well, > > I got it running on https://67.23.35.162:8000 and it is running fine under > Ubuntu Linux 8.10. > I am using the > sage/linux/64bit/sage-3.4.1-linux-Ubuntu_8.10-sse2-x86_64-Linux > precompiled binary. I think I will stick with this.

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

2009-04-28 Thread William Stein
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 10:29 PM, Gerald Smith wrote: > Hi! > > Basically, this is just for playing around with. > I fully intend to run it more securely whenever I set up for real. > I will shut the server down in maybe a week, once I have everything > functioning properly, but I will keep my ac

[sage-edu] Re: Linear Algebra QuickRef

2009-05-09 Thread William Stein
On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 10:00 PM, Rob Beezer wrote: > > I've put together a quick reference sheet (two pages) for linear > algebra commands in Sage.  I'll do a bit more clean-up on this before > posting a final copy on the wiki in a couple days, so I know there is > a bit more work to do.  Specifi

[sage-edu] Re: Linear Algebra QuickRef

2009-05-11 Thread William Stein
tion of submatrices and setting elements of a submatrix. >>> >>> * in eigenmatrix_right/left, P may not have eigenvectors.  If the >>> algebraic multiplicity does not equal the geometric multiplicity for a >>> particular eigenspace, then P pads the eigenvectors with z

[sage-edu] Re: Sage Lightweight LiveCD feedback.

2009-05-13 Thread William Stein
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 6:18 AM, kcrisman wrote: > >> You can also make it run from an external disk or a virtual machine. > > Dear Lucio, > > Thanks for the URL.  I am not very familiar with using VMs; what steps > would I use to run this directly from my hard drive?  Perhaps I should > point ou

[sage-edu] Re: ANN: openopt 0.24 - free numerical optimization framework

2009-06-15 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 5:47 PM, dmitrey wrote: > > Hi all, > OpenOpt 0.24, a free Python-written numerical optimization framework > with some own solvers and connections to tens of 3rd party ones, has > been released. > > BSD license allows to use it in both free opensource and commercial > close

[sage-edu] Re: MathFest Report

2009-08-20 Thread William Stein
Sage every day! > > HTH, > A. Jorge Garcia > http://calcpage.tripod.com > > Teacher & Professor > Applied Mathematics, Physics & Computer Science > Baldwin Senior High School & Nassau Community College > > > > > > > -- William Stein Associa

[sage-edu] Re: MathFest Report

2009-08-20 Thread William Stein
groups.com > > Sent: Wed, Aug 19, 2009 4:29 pm > > Subject: Re: [sage-edu] Re: MathFest Report > > > > I already took the plunge! I am running a new calculus lab for my AP > > Calculus BC students next year where they will be using Sage every day! > > > >

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

2009-08-23 Thread William Stein
og(x)" in sage. sage: log(x) log(x) Does anybody mind if this gets changed back? I'm guessing it was introduced by accident because of Pynac somehow during the symbolic switchover, but maybe there is something more to it that I missed? -- William -- William Stein Associate Profess

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

2009-08-23 Thread William Stein
On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 6:56 PM, John Faig wrote: > > Thierry, > >> Hello, >> I am *very* interested. I am supposed to start a Sage server for *all* >> the undergraduate students of my University (at least those learning >> maths and computer sciences or physics). My contribution is very small: >>

[sage-edu] Re: For undergraduate calc course, which is better, f or f(x)?

2009-09-03 Thread William Stein
On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 7:12 AM, Byungchul Cha wrote: > > I understand that > > f = sin(x) > > and > > f(x) = sin(x) > > define two different objects in Sage. When I introduce Sage to my > calc students, I want to get them to be able to use Sage with minimal > confusion and technicality and to ac

[sage-edu] Re: [sage-marketing] Introduction Videos

2009-09-06 Thread William Stein
On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 9:57 AM, Harald Schilly wrote: > > We should do more screen-casts for introduction. > > > from http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sage-Math/26593144945 > > Mark Olson: I have created a screencasts to help get my students up > and running with sagenb.org. > http://www.youtube.com/

[sage-edu] Re: Introduction Videos

2009-09-08 Thread William Stein
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 6:17 AM, kcrisman wrote: > > This is amazing. > >> >> The most interesting thing to me is that essentially every single >> mistake he makes is due to Sage not supporting implicit >> multiplication.  He must have to fix or edit his input nearly 10 times >> just to fix missing

[sage-edu] Re: Introduction Videos

2009-09-08 Thread William Stein
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 8:54 AM, kcrisman wrote: > >> >> I had imagined that it would be an option that individual users would >> configure for >> a given worksheet.  However, there would also be a global option in a >> user configuration page to set the *default* for worksheets.  If a >> user down

[sage-edu] Re: Introduction Videos

2009-09-08 Thread William Stein
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 8:54 AM, kcrisman wrote: > >> >> I had imagined that it would be an option that individual users would >> configure for >> a given worksheet.  However, there would also be a global option in a >> user configuration page to set the *default* for worksheets.  If a >> user down

[sage-edu] Re: Introduction Videos

2009-09-08 Thread William Stein
/wiki.sagemath.org/SageUsability > > That list keeps getting longer!  I think particularly the 66-bit > processors are a big desire for students :) > > - kcrisman > > > -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org --~-

[sage-edu] Re: Introduction Videos

2009-09-08 Thread William Stein
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 10:29 AM, kcrisman wrote: > > > > On Sep 8, 12:39 pm, William Stein wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 9:26 AM, kcrisman wrote: >> >> >> Are there any other things you get complaints about that aren't listed >> >> here?

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

2009-09-21 Thread William Stein
appen. One user could have purposely decided at one point to nefariously delete the contents of other users worksheets, since that is currently possible if one knows what they are doing. In fact, this is probably what happened. This will become impossible in the near future. William > > -

[sage-edu] Re: [sage-devel] Re: Sage at the joint meetings in San Francisco

2009-10-12 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 1:42 PM, kcrisman wrote: > > On Oct 12, 4:00 pm, mhampton wrote: >> As far as I know, we are not planning on having a booth this year in >> SF. Correct. >> Are there going to be any official Sage-related activities? No, I don't think there will be any. This is defini

[sage-edu] Re: minicourses etc.

2009-10-14 Thread William Stein
lly.  Not the same thing, but still... any ideas, on > or off list? Well one clear thing we did which prevented our proposal from being accepted was not submitting our proposal! > Incidentally, for the info of those who read this list, several of us > submitted a proposal for a PREP wo

[sage-edu] Re: minicourses etc.

2009-10-14 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 5:22 PM, kcrisman wrote: > >> OK, I have to back peddle.  I'm checking through all my email, and >> it's true that we did put together a proposal for the 2009 JMM, but >> then (in consultation with somebody on the committee) decided not to >> submit it, partly because of a

[sage-edu] Re: [sage-support] Sage 4.2 Lightweight LiveCD is ready to download.

2009-10-29 Thread William Stein
rious -- Could you make a version that is a VirtualBox appliance with a read/write filesystem using squashfs and unionfs to keep the initial uncompressed size small? -- William > > > -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathema

[sage-edu] Re: Fwd: Unsigned GeoGebra Applets

2009-11-11 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 7:40 PM, kcrisman wrote: > > > > On Nov 11, 8:21 pm, William Stein wrote: >> Dear Sage-Devel, >> >> Markus Hohenwarter (lead developer of Geogebra) and I spent a lot of >> time talking at a conference this summer in Barcelona.   A

[sage-edu] Re: First Sage Education Day!

2009-11-11 Thread William Stein
se to come in other regions of the > country.  One might think that the Pacific Northwest would be a good > place to start ;) > > - kcrisman > > > -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org --~--~-~--~~--

[sage-edu] Re: Jmol in web pages

2009-11-12 Thread William Stein
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 8:16 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 scrip

[sage-edu] Re: First Sage Education Day!

2009-11-12 Thread William Stein
Thanks. On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 8:06 AM, kcrisman wrote: > > > > On Nov 12, 1:46 am, William Stein wrote: >> On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 8:30 AM, kcrisman wrote: >> >> > We now have a Wiki page (http://wiki.sagemath.org/education1) for the >> > firs

[sage-edu] Re: Jmol in web pages

2009-11-15 Thread William Stein
e wrote back >> > to suggest that it would be nice to have the plots captioned (I >> > realize that's part of your exercise).  But if the automated >> > production include a "caption" keyword, or a whole pile of explanatory >> > text, that'd be a

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

2009-11-16 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 9:55 AM, Jason Grout wrote: > > kcrisman wrote: >> >> >> On Nov 16, 9:35 am, calcp...@aol.com wrote: >>> Well, if MATLAB is the issue, you can install Octave and still use a >>> SAGE notebook! >>> >> >> You'd think so, wouldn't you?  But I've been assured by our >> enginee

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

2009-11-17 Thread William Stein
hs (eq) : eq.rhs()  # and about 10 or 20 mains functions > > The last point isn't a problem because a fine use of list means that the > user like computer science. The other uses of lists don't separate > sage-list and lisp-list. And maple-lists aren't so clear. > > &

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

2009-11-17 Thread William Stein
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 11:18 AM, William Stein wrote: > On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Francois Maltey wrote: >> >> Dear all, >>> I'm looking for success stories from people who have used Sage in >>> their undergraduate teaching, particularly at the lo

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

2009-11-19 Thread William Stein
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 12:24 PM, ma...@mendelu.cz wrote: > > > On 18 lis, 22:31, Jason Grout wrote: >> ma...@mendelu.cz wrote: >> >> > btw: I have bad experiences when I show sagelets and interact on >> > lectures - it seems that my Sage installation detects, if I access >> > from my office or f

Re: [sage-edu] Solving Word Problems with Sage

2009-11-20 Thread William Stein
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Re: [sage-edu] Solving Word Problems with Sage

2009-11-20 Thread William Stein
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 1:01 AM, wrote: > jason-s...@creativetrax.com wrote: >> Here's maybe a relevant link: a natural language processing package for >> python: >> >> http://www.nltk.org/ >> > > > (It's amazing how much quality stuff we get for free because we are > open-source and use python a

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