On 08/18/2010 07:13 PM, William Stein wrote: > On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 4:18 AM, David Kirkby <david.kir...@onetel.net> wrote: >> On 18 August 2010 11:33, John Cremona <john.crem...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On 17 August 2010 23:31, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>>>>> It would be a student project to reimplement Mark W's algorithm (Here: >>>>>> http://www.emis.ams.org/journals/EM/expmath/volumes/11/11.4/pp487_502.pdf) >>>> >>>> This is what should happen. After somebody implements his algor >>>> in Sage, then >>>> we can (re)move Sympow. Here's a trac ticket: >>>> >>>> http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/9758 >>>> >> >> It would be good to state on the ticket what level of student project >> this is (undergrad, postgrad), and the skill set needed (C, Python >> etc). I expect you would prefer it in Python, though I think >> personally a C implementation like Marks, which you can easily call >> from Python, would be more beneficial to the scientific community in >> general - not everyone is using Sage/Python. >> >> I know if I were a student, I'd prefer a bit more information on that >> trac ticket. > > Good idea -- I've posted some stuff there.
Would a project to rewrite genus2reduction.c [1] as part of the Sage library be at a similar level? Is there a paper(s) on the algorithm? [1] This is part of the genus2reduction spkg, which does not have the same build problems as SYMPOW, as far as I'm aware. The motivation here would be, perhaps, to get some experience with PARI, Cython, and (hyper)elliptic curves. We'd also reduce very slightly our spkg maintenance burden. -- 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
