On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 9:14 AM, John Cremona <john.crem...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 12 March 2010 14:01, David Kohel <drko...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi Nicolas, >> >> The list sage-nt was set up to have a lower volume and lower noise >> forum >> for sage-devel issues with mathematical (number theoretic) interest. >> >> I also don't track sage-combinat for similar reasons as John, and >> miss >> most of what passes on sage-devel due to the high volume. Maybe >> there should be a sage-algebra list (as John suggested) for > > OK, David, why don't you start up a sage-algebra list? Its > description should try to make clear the distinction between "abstract > algebra" i nthe pure mathematical sense and "computer algebra" on the > symbolic sense. I'll join.
I'll join too (you can make me a moderator if you like, as well, if it helps the work load). > > John > >> discussions >> of algebraic and categorical topics of mathematical interest. I'm >> likely >> to miss discussions on sage-devel in between discussions of compiler >> and architecture problems. >> >> Cheers, >> >> David >> >> On Mar 10, 5:31 pm, "Nicolas M. Thiery" <nicolas.thi...@u-psud.fr> >> wrote: >>> On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 09:59:41AM +0000, John Cremona wrote: >>> > To me "combinat" is short for "combinatorics", which is different from >>> > what I do (number theory, and more generally algebra). I certainly >>> > did not realise when the combinat people joined Sage how useful they >>> > and what they do would be for people like me! (This is supposed to be >>> > a compliment). >>> >>> I appreciate the compliment :-) >>> >>> > But I get the impression that quite a lot of discussion about design >>> > in this area is happening in sage-combinat, which it never occurred to >>> > me to join (since I don't do cominatorics). Would it be better to >>> > have another discussion group for (say) sage-algebra? Or is it >>> > impossible to separate what I think of as algebra with the rest of >>> > what goes in in sage-combinat? >>> >>> You are perfectly right. It is some sort of deviance that, since we so >>> much need the category stuff for (algebraic) combinatorics, I tend to >>> discuss anything related on sage-combinat. The line is fine, but in >>> that case, I shall instead run the discussion on sage-devel, and just >>> crosspost a notice on sage-combinat. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Nicolas >>> -- >>> Nicolas M. Thi ry "Isil" <nthi...@users.sf.net>http://Nicolas.Thiery.name/ >> >> -- >> To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com >> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to >> sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel >> URL: http://www.sagemath.org >> > > -- > To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to > sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel > URL: http://www.sagemath.org > -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
