As a Research Forester/Statistician I have had to deal with sophisticated math issues for my whole career (and even more so now that I am retired (and still working). My/our work was limited by the lack of 'affordable' math packages available to use. You'd be amazed at what an applied statistician (working in a substantive field) has to do with sophisticated math issues. We work with population dynamics, physics of wildland fire (which is not understood yet) measuring heat wavelets, growth and yield, and just systems issues in general. Since we and applied mathematical statisticians must attack the real world (it never fits into a cooperative system of equations), we need the sophistication of packages like SAGE. Remember: our job is to USE sophisticated mathematics to get something else done. Out job is not to fool around with math--we have to use it (we aren't paid for, nor have the time for, investigation the wonders of mathematics-- even though we may like its logic, etc.)
Tim Paysen On May 20, 7:56 am, David Kirkby <david.kir...@onetel.net> wrote: > I gave a talk last night at the London Open Solaris User Group (LOSUG) > with the title "Porting Sage open source mathematics software to > OpenSolaris". I've stuck a copy of the presentation at > > http://boxen.math.washington.edu/home/kirkby/talks/Sage-LOSUG-19-5-20... > > The talk generated quite a bit of interest - I lost count of the > number of questions. Someone emailed me today, to ask about > statisticians using Sage. I won't forward his message, since I don't > have his permission to do so, but the relevant bit is: > > --------------------------------------------------- > I had one specific question that I didn't think was of general > interest: I work in a statistics research unit and I had already > downloaded (your?) solaris-10 sparc build before the talk. > > I wanted to ask, do you think sage offers a statistician (as opposed > to a mathematician)? Perhaps I should ask if you know of any > statisticians already using sage? > ---------------------------------------------------- > > I'm sure there are people far better placed to answer that question than me. > > Dave > > -- > To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group > athttp://groups.google.com/group/sage-support > URL:http://www.sagemath.org -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URL: http://www.sagemath.org
