On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 3:15 AM, Dr. David Kirkby<david.kir...@onetel.net> wrote: > > I think we should really make some effort to improve our page on Wikipedia. > > Comparing the Sage and Mathematica pages on Wikipedia shows the > Mathematica one is much nicer. Would it not be sensible to put some > effort into promoting Sage there? If it looks like the program is more > complete, one has a greater chance of getting people using it and > attracting more developers. > > As you know, I'm interested in porting sage to Solaris, as I'm a Solaris > user and want to use it there. Hence I'm not a Sage user. Looking on the > Mathematica Wikipedia entry, there is one person who definitely (and > admits) he works for WRI and another I suspect does, as his edits to the > Mathematica page always promote it, and his edits to the Sage page > always demotes it. (When I asked, he declines to answer). > > What of the following could we say Sage supports? Can someone give me a > yes/no or brief comment by each of these. > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > Some features of Mathematica include: > > * Libraries of elementary and special mathematical functions
yes > * 2D and 3D data and function visualization tools yes > * Matrix and data manipulation tools including support for sparse > arrays yes > * Solvers for systems of equations, ODEs, PDEs, DAEs, DDEs and > recurrence relations no clue > * Numeric and symbolic tools for discrete and continuous calculus yes. I don't know what "discrete calculus" means. > * Multivariate statistics libraries yes (R and scipy) > * Constrained and unconstrained local and global optimization no clue > * A programming language supporting procedural, functional and > object oriented constructs Yes -- python. > * A toolkit for adding user interfaces to calculations and applications yes -- @interact > * Tools for image processing [5] yes, in pylab, plus also there is the Python Imagining Library. (PIL) > * Tools for visualizing and analysing graphs yes > * Data mining tools such as cluster analysis, sequence alignment > and pattern matching maybe. not sure. > * Libraries of number theory functions yes. > * Continuous and discrete integral transforms no clue > * Import and export filters for data, images, video, sound, CAD, > GIS, document and biomedical formats don't know. probably python has most of that. > * A collection of databases of mathematical, scientific, and > socio-economic information (see below) nope, and little interest since people just write pythons scripts to import such data when they need it... > * Support for complex number, arbitrary precision and symbolic > computation for all functions "all functions"? yeah right. > * Notebook interface for review and re-use of previous inputs and > outputs including graphics and text annotations yes > * Technical word processing including formula editing and automated > report generating yes, except I don't know what "automated report generating". > * Tools for connecting to SQL, Java, .NET, C++, FORTRAN and http > based systems Yes. -- William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
