On Tue, 20 Apr 2021 at 19:21, Robert <bobbyoc...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I am new to contributing to open source projects and not sure where to begin
> (maybe emailing this distro?). In any case, the main improvement I would
> like to work on would be adding multivariate polynomials/differentials to
> numpy. I would love any insight into the current status and intensions of
> numpy polynomial implementations.
>
> 1) why do we have np.polynomial and np.lib.polynomial? which one is older?
> is there a desire to see these merged?
> 2) why does np.polynomial.Polynomial have a domain and window? they appear
> to have no implementation (except the chebyshev interpolation) as far as I
> can tell? what is their intended use? why is their no variable
> representation implemented like in np.polynomial and is not installed to
> numpy directly, @set_module('numpy')?
> 3) how many improvements are allowed to be done all at once? is there an
> expectation of waiting before improving implementations or code?
>
> Thinking further down the road, how much is too much to add to numpy? I
> would like to see multivariate implemented, but after that it would be nice
> to have a collection of known polynomials like standard, pochhammer,
> cyclotomic, hermite, lauguerre, legendre, chebyshev, jacobi. After that it
> would be of interest to extend .diff() to really be a differential operator
> (implemented as sequences of polynomials) and to allow differential
> constructions. Then things like this would be possible:
>
> x = np.poly1d([1,0])
> D = np.diff1d([1,0])
> assert Hermite(78) == (2*x - D)(Hermite(77))
>
> Or if series were implemented then we would see things like:
>
> assert Hermite(189) == (-1)**189 * Exp(x**2)*(D**189)(Exp(-x**2))
> assert Hermite(189) == Exp(-D**2)(x**189)(2*x)
>
> 4) at what point does numpy polynomial material belong in scipy material and
> visa-versa?
The distinction between numpy and scipy comes from the way things have
worked out over time to some extent. I expect that if numpy was being
rewritten today it wouldn't have any polynomial functions.
Are you aware of sympy? What you are suggesting seems more appropriate
for a symbolic library rather than a numerical one. SymPy already has
most of this e.g.:
In [47]: x = Symbol('x')
In [48]: h78 = hermite(78, x)
In [49]: h77 = hermite(77, x)
In [50]: h78 == expand(2*x*h77 - h77.diff(x))
Out[50]: True
Being a symbolic library sympy can handle Hermite polynomials of symbolic order:
In [51]: n = Symbol('n')
In [52]: hermite(n, x)
Out[52]: hermite(n, x)
In [53]: hermite(n, x).diff(x)
Out[53]: 2⋅n⋅hermite(n - 1, x)
There is also support for series etc.
Oscar
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