On Thursday, September 11, 2014 6:24:27 PM UTC-7, wstein wrote: > > Hi Sage Devs, > > I just received this email which links to a report about "global > digital math libraries" and also a long and opinionated document by > somebody named Nelson Beebe.
I think this is an odd way of referring to somebody who has a web page describing his interests etc. here. http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe/ the document you view as opinionated is an opinion piece, called Comments ... I think Nelson Beebe has some experience suggesting his comments might be worth considering, though of course you might disagree. Since Sage is mentioned a few times in > both documents, I thought I would forward them, since maybe some Sage > developers might find something of interest. The first document > ICERM-2014.pdf seems to aim to be factual and well balanced, whereas I > could barely look at the second document entitled > "ICERM-2014-NOTES.pdf" without feeling very annoyed... Maybe I'm missing the kernel of your annoyance. I was struck by the fact that Beebe says nice things about Common Lisp, and maybe that was your annoyance -- after all, python version n+1 might be incompatible with version n; and maybe there is but one implementation? (Is this true?) whereas a system that compiles on 8 different ANSI common lisp implementations, several of which are open-source... strikes his as a plus. (Will there ever be an incompatible revision of ANSI CL? don't hold your breath...) By the way, I do not recall meeting Beebe and had no idea of his breadth of interests. I think I've encountered him or his writings in numerical analysis at various times in the past. (somebody named...) Richard Fateman > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Nelson H. F. Beebe <be...@math.utah.edu <javascript:>> > Date: Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 5:20 PM > Subject: [GDML] [gdml] ICERM report and comments > To: gd...@mathunion.org <javascript:> > > > The ICERM (Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in > Mathematics) workshop led to the production of an 18-page report > published on the Web on 28-Aug-2014. I read it, and sent a long reply > in e-mail to the authors. One of them suggested that I write up my > comments in PDF form, and earlier this week, I did so, adding some > polishing and additional information, and numerous Web links. > > The two reports are available here: > > http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe/icerm > > There is discussion in both of the desirability of global digital math > libraries, the main topic of this mailing list, so I expect that some > of you may be interested in the two reports. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > - Nelson H. F. Beebe Tel: +1 801 581 5254 > - > - University of Utah FAX: +1 801 581 4148 > - > - Department of Mathematics, 110 LCB Internet e-mail: > be...@math.utah.edu <javascript:> - > - 155 S 1400 E RM 233 be...@acm.org <javascript:> > be...@computer.org <javascript:> - > - Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0090, USA URL: > http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe/ - > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > -- > William Stein > Professor of Mathematics > University of Washington > http://wstein.org > wst...@uw.edu <javascript:> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
