[sage-devel] Re: Italian translation of SAGE tutorial

2008-10-02 Thread Fabio Tonti
Buon giorno everybody, I am able to speak and write Italian (although my writing is rather poor). The only thing is that I'm not familiar with the "Italian" used in mathematics. Best wishes, Fabio Tonti On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 10:32 AM, Franco Saliola <[EMAIL PROTECTED

[sage-devel] Re: knoboo

2008-04-12 Thread Fabio Tonti
Wow very cool! I've been wanting to try it out for some time now, but I was just too lazy to install it manually... Thanks William&Alex! On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 7:40 AM, Hector Villafuerte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 11:16 PM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >

[sage-devel] Re: GeoGebra

2008-02-21 Thread Fabio Tonti
I really don't want to interfere here, since I don't have the experience etc. But it's just a piece of opinion, I think it can do no harm to give you people some feedback. Creating a viable free open source alternative to > Magma, Maple, Mathematica, and Matlab So first to say: I completely agre

[sage-devel] Re: Linear systems

2008-02-04 Thread Fabio Tonti
ices would be useful as well. > > --Mike > > On Feb 4, 2008 11:35 AM, Fabio Tonti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Systems with an infinite number of solutions, i.e. non-square > coefficient > > matrices. Does that make sense at all? > > > > > > &g

[sage-devel] Re: Linear systems

2008-02-04 Thread Fabio Tonti
operator which is an alias for .solve_right. > > sage: a = matrix([[1,2],[3,4]]) > sage: b = vector([3,7]) > sage: a \ b > (1, 1) > sage: a = matrix([[sin(x),cos(x)],[sin(x),sin(x)]]) > sage: a \ b > (3/sin(x) - 4*cos(x)/(sin(x)*(sin(x) - cos(x))), 4/(sin(x) - cos(x))) >

[sage-devel] Linear systems

2008-02-04 Thread Fabio Tonti
Is there any way to find solutions to arbitrary systems of linear equations in Sage? I mean, without using an external package? (is there even an external package with that ability?) I'm not interested in fast computations, just the ability to solve systems would be useful (or wouldn't it be? It se

[sage-devel] Re: Lorenz attractor

2008-01-29 Thread Fabio Tonti
Would be nice if someone posted the Lorenz attractor code on planet.sagemath.org! For those who don't subscribe to this list... Fabio On Jan 29, 2008 8:32 PM, mhampton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > We really need to get xpp and/or AUTO into sage at some point. I have > made some half-hearted

[sage-devel] Re: [sage-newbie] Re: Sage Quick Reference

2008-01-23 Thread Fabio Tonti
I'm sorry to reply here, but I just saw it now: What's happened to the Langtangen-book Cheers, Fabio On Jan 23, 2008 3:29 AM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Jan 19, 9:51 pm, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I created a 1-page Quick Reference Guide

[sage-devel] Re: German Sage Introduction

2008-01-18 Thread Fabio Tonti
Well, I think it needs a rewrite, not just some editing... but on the other hand, it's not that bad either. Still, it has to be renewed. On Jan 18, 2008 12:17 PM, Harald Schilly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jan 17, 11:09 pm, Martin Albrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > * totally outda

[sage-devel] Sympy Plotting

2008-01-18 Thread Fabio Tonti
Hello everyone, I've just been playing around with SymPy a bit more lately, and I found that the 3D-Plot implementation is really nice!!! Why isn't that the default plot3D-way for Sage command-line use? I must say that I'm really looking forward to getting mayavi2 into Sage (I know it's already th

[sage-devel] Re: sage-2.10, UCS4 an VPython

2008-01-12 Thread Fabio Tonti
Looks good, but seriosly: why don't we stick to the Mayavi/TVTK stuff from Enthought??? Cheers, Fabio On Jan 12, 2008 8:35 PM, Jaap Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I managed to get VPython-4.beta23 compiled and running under > sage-2.10.alpha2 > on Fedora 7 (not on Fedora 8, because

[sage-devel] Re: inner product of complex vectors

2008-01-10 Thread Fabio Tonti
rently) recognise complex vectors > > and use an appropriate definition for inner_product() is surely a bug. > > It should be easy to fix if the parent field is CC (or is coerciable > > to CC?). > > > > John > > > > On 06/01/2008, Fabio Tonti <[EMAIL PRO

[sage-devel] Re: Wiris -- something like the Sage notebook sort of

2008-01-09 Thread Fabio Tonti
Quite fancy, but the thing took about 1 Minute to load on my Kubuntu machine, and Firefox was frozen in the meantime!!! Yes, that's right, it's Java ;) But it sure could be one possible way to go. (I must say I like the AJAX stuff more, although I really have NO CLUE at all about web programming...

[sage-devel] inner product of complex vectors

2008-01-06 Thread Fabio Tonti
sage: u=vector([2+3*I,5+2*I,-3+I]) sage: v=vector([1+2*I,-4+5*I,0+5*I]) sage: p1=u*v;p1.expand() 9*I - 39 sage: p2=u.inner_product(v);p2.expand() 9*I - 39 sage: p3=u.dot_product(v);p3.expand() 9*I - 39 sage: p4=u.inner_product(vector([i.conjugate() for i in v]));p4.expand() 3 - 19*I Am I right in

[sage-devel] Re: Rosetta translations

2008-01-05 Thread Fabio Tonti
> > The biggest advantage of a live cd is that it lets you experiment with > the software without modifying anything on your system. This is great > for marketing purposes, but pointless for everyday use. Since the > notebook servers (sagenb.com) already provide an environment where > people can pl

[sage-devel] Re: Rosetta translations

2008-01-04 Thread Fabio Tonti
ich comes to my mind: Wouldn't it be easiest if a live-distro included Sage? I just read Michael Abshoff's Blog post, and he writes that Pardus or Debian might include Sage! Wouldn't that just solve the problem? On Jan 4, 2008 10:43 AM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

[sage-devel] 2 small ref doc typos

2008-01-04 Thread Fabio Tonti
The page numbers are numbers in the pdf version (in parentheses the printed page numbers) I'm actually not sure about how to reference the page numbers... page 175 (162): ** instead of ^; the pyx example says: "sage: y(x) = x*sin(x**2)" using the "**" is nice for python, but isn't Sage emphasizing

[sage-devel] typos in the ref manual

2008-01-04 Thread Fabio Tonti
Where should I complain about typos in the documentation? (or should I at all?) Another question: will there also be a presentation about Sage at the San Diego AMS meeting? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To un

[sage-devel] Re: Rosetta translations

2008-01-03 Thread Fabio Tonti
It's a very good idea for demonstrations... Imagine having sage on a USB-drive an booting it directly Cheers, Fabio On Jan 2, 2008 8:04 PM, TimDaly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'd use a live cd. they are much more convenient to show off > at conferences. > > On Jan 2, 1:37 am, "William St

[sage-devel] Re: Describing Sage as a Mathematics Computing Environment

2007-12-30 Thread Fabio Tonti
I'm not sure whom you are aiming at with this description, but I think there should be some emphasis on the natural sciences too. I think the description should be something like "CAS *AND* system for computational sciences", but I'm not sure about how to make it sound good. Cheers, Fabio --~--~-

[sage-devel] Fwd: SymPy and Sage

2007-12-29 Thread Fabio Tonti
n advance. Best wishes, Fabio -- Forwarded message -- From: Ondrej Certik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Dec 28, 2007 12:23 PM Subject: Re: SymPy and Sage To: Fabio Tonti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi Fabio, On Dec 28, 2007 12:10 PM, Fabio Tonti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > H

[sage-devel] Re: Cython is in Debian

2007-12-23 Thread Fabio Tonti
I'd just like to say: GREAT!!! On Dec 23, 2007 1:21 AM, Ondrej Certik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > as a Christmas present from me, Cython made it to Debian couple of hours > ago: > > http://packages.debian.org/sid/cython > > Could you please Robert release a new version with the automat

[sage-devel] Re: example of a Mathematica program from my lecture

2007-12-21 Thread Fabio Tonti
Just to give my point of view: (I'm not taking part in development at the moment either) A native windows port seems like a good idea, iff there are people willing to do it and iff it won't take any ressources from other parts of the project. I'm sure a port would also increase the overall quality

[sage-devel] Re: "a long, long way to go before it offers serious competition to Matlab."

2007-12-14 Thread Fabio Tonti
Hmm... the author of this post doesn't seem to realize what Sage is about, correct me if I'm wrong!?! Best wishes, Fabio On 12/14/07, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > Here is a blog post by somebody that claims "[Sage has] got a long, long > way to go before it offers serious

[sage-devel] Re: Announcing planet.sagemath.org!

2007-12-13 Thread Fabio Tonti
Yes, it really looks the way it should, in my opinion. On Dec 13, 2007 11:18 AM, Pablo De Nápoli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Excelent idea! > Pablo > > El Thursday 13 December 2007 01:47:49 Yi Qiang escribió: > > Since people expressed interest, I set up http://planet.sagemath.org. > > You c

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: banner

2007-12-12 Thread Fabio Tonti
I really like what Martin Albrecht posted, I think it's very simple and yet representative. Maybe there could be one or two more symbols in the banner, in my opinion the SymPy-snake would fit somewhere or e.g. the SciPy Logo (I know it's optional, but it's there!) Best wishes, Fabio On Dec 13, 20

[sage-devel] Re: SAGE made it to SlashDot

2007-12-08 Thread Fabio Tonti
Well, after reading the comment THOROUGHLY (I'm not sure why I've done that), I agree. I must say that I wasn't aware of the fact that THIS is the general level of intelligence of slashdot comments, although I occasionally skim through the news. Anyway, it surely IS publicity :) Best wishes, Fabio

[sage-devel] Re: Breaking News: Trophees du Libre

2007-12-05 Thread Fabio Tonti
I'm writing with some delay too, I just wanted to congratulate you on the Trophees du Libre. ABSOLUTELY GREAT! Cheers, Fabio On Dec 5, 2007 2:56 PM, Ralf-Philipp Weinmann < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Nov 29, 2007, at 20:07 , Martin Albrecht wrote: > > > ... we won! > > Just catching up wit

[sage-devel] Re: please wait less than a minute -> please wait around 6 minutes

2007-11-22 Thread Fabio Tonti
Is it possible to implement a progress meter for -upgrade? I've never seen something like that with a compiling process, but why is that so? On Nov 22, 2007 4:52 PM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Nov 22, 2007 7:42 AM, Ondrej Certik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Nov 22, 2

[sage-devel] Re: Calculus in SAGE, motivations

2007-11-16 Thread Fabio Tonti
So basically, on the long run, you would like to use SymPy together with everything rewritten in Cython? Did I get it* correctly?* On Nov 15, 2007 5:39 PM, Ondrej Certik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I would like to discuss how to improve calculus in SAGE. > > I know, that currently, mos

[sage-devel] Re: plotQt.c with Qt 4.3.2 + GUI for pari/gp

2007-11-13 Thread Fabio Tonti
SAGE earlier, so he's just found out today. He will take a closer look at the project. He'd find it interesting to integrate mathGUIde into SAGE. About the licensing: mathGUIde is GPL (oh yes), he just emphasizes that the Qt noncommercial license for Windows is a bit restrictive,

[sage-devel] Re: plotQt.c with Qt 4.3.2 + GUI for pari/gp

2007-11-13 Thread Fabio Tonti
I hope my short description of the GPL isnt't too bad... the rest should be quite alright. Fabio On Nov 13, 2007 2:13 PM, David Joyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Please do! > > > On 11/13/07, Fabio Tonti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I couldn&

[sage-devel] mathGUIde Lizenz

2007-11-13 Thread Fabio Tonti
ch danke Ihnen schon jetzt für Ihre Bemühungen. Mit freundlichen Grüßen Fabio Tonti --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visi

[sage-devel] Re: plotQt.c with Qt 4.3.2 + GUI for pari/gp

2007-11-13 Thread Fabio Tonti
ED]> wrote: > > On 11/13/07, Fabio Tonti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The original Webpage says "[mathGUIde] ist Freeware und wird mit allen > > Quellen verbreitet" which means that "it's freeware and is distributed > with > > all the sources&

[sage-devel] Re: plotQt.c with Qt 4.3.2 + GUI for pari/gp

2007-11-12 Thread Fabio Tonti
The original Webpage says "[mathGUIde] ist Freeware und wird mit allen Quellen verbreitet" which means that "it's freeware and is distributed with all the sources". So it doesn't state any licensing details e.g. whether you may modify the source etc. Maybe I should download it and look into the sou

[sage-devel] Re: SAGE and other applications

2007-10-31 Thread Fabio Tonti
That sounds very good. But what would be the advantage of using RPy instead of your pexpect module? Greetings, Fabio. On 10/31/07, Mike Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > What is your opinion? > > Can anyone unravel details about how this will be implemented? RPy > maybe? > I am almost fin

[sage-devel] Re: SAGE and other applications

2007-10-30 Thread Fabio Tonti
I mostly agree with the things stated above, and sage.calculus is clearly an important part for applications. Still, we should also consider other possible uses. I recently talked to Michael Abshoff about whether we are planning to make R a part of SAGE. He told me that William was convinced that i

[sage-devel] SAGE and other applications

2007-10-28 Thread Fabio Tonti
I'm just copy and pasting something which I spoke about with cwitty and Martin Albrecht. So this is it: Why is there not emphasize on sagemath.org about the fact that sage can also be used for natural sciences/engineering applications etc.? I think that first of all this would mean more users comi

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: Contributing to SAGE

2007-10-08 Thread Fabio Tonti
gt; > > Hello Fabio, > > On Oct 6, 7:10 pm, "Fabio Tonti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well, that seems very sound. I'm very happy that there is something to > do. > > In other words: I'm in (if I'm allowed to say this ;) ). > > W

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: Contributing to SAGE

2007-10-06 Thread Fabio Tonti
ects? (I'll try to work as fast as I can, but I don't know how it compares to other developers since it's the first project I'm directly involved with) I hope this question won't make a bad impression. Thanks again. Best wishes, Fabio On 10/6/07, William Stein <[EMAIL

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: Contributing to SAGE

2007-10-06 Thread Fabio Tonti
t; wrote: > > > On 10/5/07, Fabio Tonti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Greetings to everyone, > > > > I'm new to the mailing list and so I'm actually just forwarding what > I've > > already sent to Prof. Stein. > > If anyone has the tim

[sage-devel] Fwd: Contributing to SAGE

2007-10-05 Thread Fabio Tonti
Greetings to everyone, I'm new to the mailing list and so I'm actually just forwarding what I've already sent to Prof. Stein. If anyone has the time to do so, please read my original message and answer with regard to it Thanks in advance. Best wishes, Fabio Tonti -- Fo