[sage-devel] Re: cube roots in Sage

2020-06-11 Thread Diego Sejas
Hello, Sage Community! I think the addition of a real_nth_root() function could be very beneficial, specially in the teaching context, where using Sage with odd roots of negative numbers implies the use of some programming tweaks. In my case, I lost the count of how many times I forgot (in the

[sage-devel] Re: cube roots in Sage

2020-06-11 Thread Diego Sejas
Hello, Sage Community! I think the addition of a real_nth_root() function could be very beneficial, specially in the teaching context, where using Sage with odd roots of negative numbers implies the use of some programming tweaks. In my case, I lost the count of how many times I forgot (in the

[sage-devel] Re: cube roots in Sage

2020-06-11 Thread Gregory Bard
Dear Sage developers, I'm currently working on a 2nd edition of my book *Sage for Undergraduates*, which adds some new material but mostly updates the book to reflect syntax changes in Sage since mid-2014, especially relating to the Python2 to Python3 transition. Some of you might remember a s

[sage-devel] Lie symmetries of differential equations

2020-06-11 Thread Furkan Semih Dündar
Dearl All, I recently bought the book that I studied in my PhD years. It is "*Differential Equations: their solution using symmetries*" by Hans Stephani. https://www.amazon.com/Differential-Equations-Their-Solution-Symmetries/dp/0521355311/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=hans+stephani+differential+e