On 06/01/2015 8:38 PM, Alexander Belopolsky wrote:
On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 8:20 PM, Nathaniel Smith <n...@pobox.com
<mailto:n...@pobox.com>> wrote:
> Since matrices are now part of some high school curricula, I urge that
they
> be treated appropriately in Numpy. Further, I suggest that
consideration be
> given to establishing V and VT sub-classes, to cover vectors and
transposed
> vectors.
The numpy devs don't really have the interest or the skills to create
a great library for pedagogical use in high schools. If you're
interested in an interface like this, then I'd suggest creating a new
package focused specifically on that (which might use numpy
internally). There's really no advantage in glomming this into numpy
proper.
Sorry for taking this further off-topic, but I recently discovered an
excellent SAGE package, <http://www.sagemath.org/>. While it's
targeted audience includes math graduate students and research
mathematicians, parts of it are accessible to schoolchildren. SAGE is
written in Python and integrates a number of packages including numpy.
My remark about high school was intended to emphasise that matrix
algebra is an essential part of linear algebra. Numpy has not fully
developed this part. I feel that Guido may not have fully understood
the availability of the Matrix class when he approved the reliance on dot().
I would highly recommend to anyone interested in using Python for
education to take a look at SAGE.
Thanks Alexander, I'll do that. It looks excellent, but it seems that
the University of Washington has funding problems and does not appear to
have the crew of volunteers that Python has.
Regards,
Colin W.
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