That's fair – I'm not entirely sure those should all go in one organization, but it suppose it could be helpful to have a sort of catch-all organization for mathematical packages that don't yet have a more specialized organization to live in.
On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 10:41 AM, Hans W Borchers <hwborch...@gmail.com> wrote: > There's not so much about number theory at the moment, it's more a > prospect of > future contributions. > > How would you name an organization that, e.g., could include packages like > > Calculus[2], Roots > Polynomial[s], TaylorSeries > Elliptic, LambertW > ApproxFun, ApproxXD, Grid, Dierckx > MatrixDepot, PolarFact > Cubature, Cuhre, FastGauss > Wavelets > Combinatorics, Catalan, ContinuedFractions > PrimeSieve > > This is not to say all these packages should be or should not be included. > It is > more a fast compilation by zipping through the package lists. I'm still > missing > more special functions, e.g the hypergeometric function. (Please don't > point to > Python & Scipy, its implementation of 2F1 is buggy.) > > I would have liked to have an overview of what mathematical functionality > is > available in Julia when I first came here. > > > On Thursday, January 29, 2015 at 4:04:30 PM UTC+1, Stefan Karpinski wrote: >> >> JuliaMath seems far too broad for a name for an organization. But a >> JuliaNumberTheory org or something would be good. Not a pithy name, so >> something better would be welcomed. >> >> >> On Jan 29, 2015, at 9:55 AM, Hans W Borchers <hwbor...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> No, the intention was not to just include MATLAB-like capabilities and >> syntax. >> >> I would like to have a JuliaMath organization that could encompass all >> kinds >> of mathematical and numerical packages. For example also some packages >> with >> algebraic number theory or elliptic curves functionality, that Matlab >> does not >> provide in its official toolboxes, AFAIK. >> >> >> On Thursday, January 29, 2015 at 3:40:01 PM UTC+1, Stefan Karpinski wrote: >>> >>> JuliaMAT does seem like a clearer org name for Matlab/Octave >>> compatibility and support. >>> >>> On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 9:24 AM, Viral Shah <vi...@mayin.org> wrote: >>> >>>> If the goal is to support MATLAB-like capabilities and syntax, perhaps >>>> JuliaMAT is the right organization name. This could have a variety of >>>> matlab compatibility packages, .mat file readers, compatibility packages, >>>> MATCall, etc. >>>> >>>> -viral >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> > On 29-Jan-2015, at 4:37 pm, Hans W Borchers <hwbor...@gmail.com> >>>> wrote: >>>> > >>>> > Iain, >>>> > >>>> > do you think it would be reasonable to set up a JuliaMath (or >>>> JuliaNum) organization? >>>> > After all, Julia intends to become an open source >>>> competitor/replacement for Matlab. >>>> > How will such a Julia organization be set up, for example. >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > On Wednesday, January 28, 2015 at 4:17:13 PM UTC+1, Iain Dunning >>>> wrote: >>>> > I think our equivalent of CRAN Task Views are the various >>>> organizations, e.g. juliaopt.org. I'd like to incorporate them into >>>> the official package listing in a more obvious way, especially as their >>>> popularity is growing (saw JuliaGeo pop up recently, for example) >>>> > >>>> >>>> >>>
