[sage-support] Re: Fwd: GUI for SAGE

2007-08-09 Thread Ted Kosan
On 8/9/07, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > - William > > (Sent from my iPhone.) > > Begin forwarded message: > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Erik D. > Jacobson 04) > Date: August 9, 2007 3:12:49 PM PDT > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: GUI for SAGE > > > Hello Prof. Stein, > > I'm

[sage-support] Re: using the sage notebook

2007-08-09 Thread Daryl
I must be doing something wrong. At the sage login prompt I type notebook(address="xxx.xxx.x.xxx"), where the x's are the IP address. But the system responds by asking for a password. Please tell me the problem. On Aug 6, 5:15 pm, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You have to do notebo

[sage-support] beginner friendly notebook exaple

2007-08-09 Thread Jurgis Pralgauskis
Hello, I gave a http://www.sagenb.org/ link to some of my math coleagues, but they said, thet didn't understand anything there.. Personaly the earlier notebook interface was more attractive (understandable for me as well) is it possible to have instance of oldstyle notebook - as sandbox, for th

[sage-support] Determining IP address of VMware machine

2007-08-09 Thread David Stahl
Thank you William. Can you tell me how to determine the ip address of the vmware machine? Other postings imply that just typing "notebook" will give it to you but that's not what I have experienced. David --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email

[sage-support] Fwd: GUI for SAGE

2007-08-09 Thread William Stein
- William (Sent from my iPhone.) Begin forwarded message: > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Erik D. Jacobson 04) > Date: August 9, 2007 3:12:49 PM PDT > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: GUI for SAGE > > Hello Prof. Stein, > > I'm a high school math teacher and I'm interested in using SAGE in > the

[sage-support] Re: How to use SAGE from within C++ CGI?

2007-08-09 Thread Jonathan Bober
On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 23:37 -0700, Yigal wrote: > Hi, > I'm building web site for interactive solving school math problems > using C++ CGI and open source math software. > As I've been told in maxima mailing list, instead of reinventing the > weel, i.e. carrying for interfaces to several CAS and o

[sage-support] Re: Fwd: Computer Algerbra Systems (not spam)

2007-08-09 Thread Ted Kosan
David wrote: > Good ideas, I think. I'd like more high school math (drawing triangles etc, > lots of trig and algebra exercises) included. What I had in mind was something a bit more aggressive than this :-) The beginner's book is designed to give the reader the fundamental skills needed use Sa

[sage-support] Re: Fwd: Computer Algerbra Systems (not spam)

2007-08-09 Thread Ted Kosan
Martin wrote: > wasn't the list supposed to focus on highschool math and SAGE? I'd prefer > sage-highschool in that case. My idea was to help CAS/Sage beginners no matter how old they are. I mentioned using high school students for the beta testing because we already have one that needs help an

[sage-support] Re: Fwd: Computer Algerbra Systems (not spam)

2007-08-09 Thread Martin Albrecht
On Thursday 09 August 2007, Ted Kosan wrote: > William wrote: > > Please do. The hardest thing is choosing a name. Could both you > > and Timoth Clemans suggest some possibilities? > > > > E.g., sage-edu, sage-youth, sage-newbie, etc. > > I think that Timothy is correct about sage-edu being too

[sage-support] Re: Fwd: Computer Algerbra Systems (not spam)

2007-08-09 Thread Ted Kosan
William wrote: > Please do. The hardest thing is choosing a name. Could both you > and Timoth Clemans suggest some possibilities? > > E.g., sage-edu, sage-youth, sage-newbie, etc. I think that Timothy is correct about sage-edu being too general and sage-youth might make older beginners feel th

[sage-support] Re: plotting issues in Mac OS X

2007-08-09 Thread William Stein
On 8/9/07, Justin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well... I installed the older version (after realizing that I didn't > "make" in the sage directory) and everything works fine. I'll install > the newer version properly this time and hopefully it will all work. > > thanks everyone for bearing with me

[sage-support] Re: Fwd: Computer Algerbra Systems (not spam)

2007-08-09 Thread Timothy Clemans
sage-highschool since sage edu in general means calculus and upper undergrad and grad level On 8/9/07, Timothy Clemans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Good ideas, I think. I'd like more high school math (drawing triangles etc, > > lots of trig and algebra exercises) included. > > SymPy has a geome

[sage-support] Re: Fwd: Computer Algerbra Systems (not spam)

2007-08-09 Thread Timothy Clemans
> Good ideas, I think. I'd like more high school math (drawing triangles etc, > lots of trig and algebra exercises) included. SymPy has a geometry module. It is being written as apart of one of Summer of Code people for his project. I don't know if it will include a function for calculating circl

[sage-support] Re: Fwd: Computer Algerbra Systems (not spam)

2007-08-09 Thread William Stein
On 8/9/07, Ted Kosan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I propose that a 3rd experimental Sage google group be created for CAS > beginners like this student and that the beginner's book be used as > its focus. I will volunteer to help run the group. Please do. The hardest thing is choosing a name. C

[sage-support] Re: Fwd: Computer Algerbra Systems (not spam)

2007-08-09 Thread David Joyner
On 8/9/07, Ted Kosan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > William, > > This is exactly the kind of student that I had in mind in my response > to your marketing email. He is fairly good with computers but not so > good with math for various reasons and there are hundreds of thousands > of these type of

[sage-support] Re: Fwd: Computer Algerbra Systems (not spam)

2007-08-09 Thread Ted Kosan
Timothy wrote: > I am a high school student. "SAGE Beginners Book" seems to be more > about computation in general than how to use SAGE to explore > mathematics and get help on math homework. Computation in general is deeply ingrained into the fabric of Sage and therefore Sage users need to have

[sage-support] Re: Fwd: Computer Algerbra Systems (not spam)

2007-08-09 Thread Timothy Clemans
I am a high school student. "SAGE Beginners Book" seems to be more about computation in general than how to use SAGE to explore mathematics and get help on math homework. I like the idea of a Google Group for discussing SAGE for high-school students. SAGE includes SymPy so a student could play aro

[sage-support] Re: Fwd: Computer Algerbra Systems (not spam)

2007-08-09 Thread Ted Kosan
William, This is exactly the kind of student that I had in mind in my response to your marketing email. He is fairly good with computers but not so good with math for various reasons and there are hundreds of thousands of these type of students in the world. My opinion is that Sage definitely i

[sage-support] Re: Fwd: Computer Algerbra Systems (not spam)

2007-08-09 Thread Timothy Clemans
There are three free public SAGE Notebooks on sage.math. First off one can define equations and inequalities. EXAMPLES: g = 5*x^2 - 3 == 50 h = x + 1 < 30 Second one can plot 2D functions. EXAMPLES: plot(x^2).show() plot(sin(x)).show() Your son could write programs to explore algebra 2 concepts.

[sage-support] Re: plotting issues in Mac OS X

2007-08-09 Thread Justin
Well... I installed the older version (after realizing that I didn't "make" in the sage directory) and everything works fine. I'll install the newer version properly this time and hopefully it will all work. thanks everyone for bearing with me, -Justin On Aug 9, 11:07 am, Justin <[EMAIL PROTECTE

[sage-support] Fwd: Computer Algerbra Systems (not spam)

2007-08-09 Thread William Stein
-- Forwarded message -- From: David Collier <> Date: Aug 9, 2007 7:40 AM Subject: Computer Algerbra Systems To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello Professor Stein, My son is a junior at Sacred Heart High School in Kingston, MA. He will be taking Algebra II this year. He is not a great

[sage-support] Re: plotting issues in Mac OS X

2007-08-09 Thread Justin
I'm using an Intel MacBook. I just unpacked the .tar.gz into my applications folder and opened sage with terminal as per instructions. I'll try the older version of sage and see if that works. -Justin On Aug 8, 7:06 pm, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/8/07, Justin <[EMAIL PROTE

[sage-support] Re: torsion points

2007-08-09 Thread William Stein
On 8/6/07, Joseph Hufnagle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Mr. Stein, >Given an elliptic curve defined as > > > e=EllipticCurve([-1386747,368636886]);e > > how does one find the torsion points? e.torsion_order() and > e.torsion_subgroup() give information about the order, but no points.

[sage-support] Re: Save button in the notebook

2007-08-09 Thread William Stein
On 8/6/07, Ted Kosan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am in the process of developing a standard format that typical > students can follow when using the Sage notebook. Part of this > pattern consists of creating cells which contain only comments, like > the description of a problem that is being s