Rob, It would be great to have an English version of that book, I agree that its very good. I would be willing to pitch in a bit to a team translation effort. My French is not good but I think I could slog through part of it - other people in my family might check my work if I can talk them into it (e.g. my sister teaches French).
-Marshall On Oct 30, 5:39 am, Rob Beezer <goo...@beezer.cotse.net> wrote: > > There's already a nice CC-licensed book about Sage written in > French: > > > > > http://sagebook.gforge.inria.fr/ > > > Are there any plans to make a print version and/or translations? > > I have "translated" the French Sage book into Sage worksheets. This > was all very experimental and a bit "quick and dirty" in places (ie I > probably introduced some errors). Out of respect for the original > authors' work I have not distributed this version widely. But I do > intend to return to the project and do the format conversion properly, > and with more input and involvement from the authors. > > But having spent four or five days with the source for the book, and > with the caveat that my abilities with French are not the greatest, it > is definitely the best resource out there for a beginner right now > (IMHO). > > If I understand right, Paul Zimmerman organized about 10 authors to > each write a chapter about using Sage in their specialty. It is a > model that could be repeated in any language, or perhaps a translation > of the French work could be translated by a similar team of > knowledgeable Sage mathematicians. > > Rob -- 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
