Sorry for bumping, but is there any news on this? I would be willing to assist with the translation aspects.
On Nov 4 2010, 1:23 pm, "Nicolas M. Thiery" <nicolas.thi...@u-psud.fr> wrote: > Dear John, dear all, > > > >> Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2010 14:51:27 +0100 > > >> From: John Cremona <john.crem...@gmail.com> > > >> With a few (preferably native English-speaking) people collaborating, > > >> translating the French book would not be at all hard. Paul, would you > > >> be willing to coordinate a little project to do that? We could divide > > >> the book up into sections and get volunteers to work on each section > > >> (one or more each) and the collate the whole. > On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 08:43:26PM +0000, John Cremona wrote: > > I can't do this during this term, i.e. much before the end of 2010, > > but there's a possibility it could happen in early 2011 when I will be > > on study leave. > > That would be great! > > By the way: there are (at least) two important areas which are not > covered at all in the book: probability & statistics and group theory. > The reason for this is simply that we did not find french speaking > authors to write them. > > So: this is a call for candidates for writing such chapters for the > would-be English version! And then we would be happy translating them > back to French. > > Of course the issue behind the scene is that most specialists of those > areas are working directly with the already existing, and excellent, > open source software R and GAP. So the author pool is small. > > 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
