For what we looking? As to explaining, "What is this sage thing good for?", an organization of the somewhat-messy published documents <https://www.sagenb.org/pub/> might be nice. There's some great stuff in there! Get something for Jason's colloquium talk in a week?
A link on the main page <http://sagemath.org/> to "Here are some uses of sage" might make sense. Some has been done with Screen Shots <http://sagemath.org/screen_shots>., but one has to navigate two pages The art page <http://www.sagemath.org:9001/art> is nice, but I don't see source code. No one else is volunteering, so give me whatever necessary authority & some direction, and I'll do it. I see something like (I'm alphabetizing, and probably missing a lot): Biology (Marshall's note) Breakdown as needed Chemistry Subdivisions as needed Economics (Michael's note) Break up as needed Mathematics calculus DE's Linear algebra -> more abstract stuff, et cetera, subdivisions. Physics Subfields as needed. Pretty pictures and math art via sage (of great importance to the mathematics duffers, probably none of whom read this list) Other subfields as necessary. Sage Functionality and good examples of how to code in sage & solve sticky problems More breakdown And so forth. I see lots of cool stuff on the course web-page at this link<http://wiki.wstein.org/2008/480a/schedule> . Better organized, someone could send out notes, "We have plenty of examples of the MVT, but need more in this abstract subfield of Group Theory. When most want to know about a software package, s/he asks, "How does it make MY life a better place? What can it do? Pictures? What are it's limitations? I don't want to spend a month learning it. Why should I be interested in this open-source 'free' stuff? What's the catch?" If no use is immediately obvious, "Say, this Mathematica thing has some pretty nice documentation ..." Just my verbose $0.02. No one else was responding. I think sage has great potential, but everyone is so busy developing, no-one has time to market. Talk to our friends at Apple about that one. Dean --- On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 10:37 AM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > This quarter I'm going to use Sage to teach an interdisciplinary > course called "Algebraic, Scientiļ¬c, and Statistical Computing, an > Open Source Approach Using Sage" this quarter. The course webpage is > here: http://wiki.wstein.org/2008/480a > > For me the theme of this course is basically this: now that Sage is > "here", what > does it do? What can we do with it? How can its very broad capabilities > be > easily explained to people? > > Somehow we've built up a massive amount of functionality during the > last two years, and it's time to step back for a moment and figure out > what > the heck one can do with sage-2.11.tar.gz. And, given what Sage has > become, this is very much an interdisciplinary question. > > On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 4:32 AM, Marshall Hampton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > I use Sage as the primary platform for an interdisciplinary course on > > bioinformatics. The students are a mix of math, biology, and > > chemistry graduate students (and a small number of undergraduates). I > > use (and largely maintain) the biopython spkg for sage. For more > > detail than you want, you can look at the course homepage: > > > > > > http://www.d.umn.edu/~mhampton/m5233s8.html<http://www.d.umn.edu/%7Emhampton/m5233s8.html> > > > > Cheers, > > Marshall Hampton > > > > > > > > On Mar 28, 5:34 pm, Jason Grout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I'm giving a colloquium talk on Sage in a week to a broad audience of > > > science-related faculty at a liberal arts college. I'd like to point > > > out some applications of Sage in things other than math, like using > the > > > biopython project, possibly R, etc. Does anyone have some good > material > > > using Sage in science-related interdisciplinary research? > > > > > > If there are lots of responses, I'll make a wiki page with the info. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > Jason > > > > > > > > > -- > William Stein > Associate Professor of Mathematics > University of Washington > http://wstein.org > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
