Thank you for this - I am studying it and it definitely has some of the flavour of what i'm thinking of. Once I understand it better I can say more.
On Jul 30, 10:47 am, Alan Bromborsky <abro...@verizon.net> wrote: > Marco wrote: > > I was very impressed by the description of SymPy here: > > >http://www.euroscipy.org/presentations/slides/index.html > > > and especially slide 14 "Internals: Object oriented model". > > > I have a couple of general questions about how Object-oriented SymPy > > is. I'm a mathematician and would like to use or extend SymPy to do > > abstract differential geometry. > > > 1. Where/how can I see a diagram of the structure of the classes in > > SymPy? > > 2. Is SymPy at all modeled after category theory, which organizes > > mathematics in an essentially object-oriented way? > > 3. Is there a SymPy approach to, for example, vector spaces? I do > > *not* mean matrix algebra or computations in components. I mean an > > actual abstract vector space, where objects would be vectors and one > > could take linear combinations of vectors. I'm asking this question > > as an example of a more general question - whether SymPy has been used > > to do "abstract" computations on mathematical objects such as vector > > spaces, manifolds, etc. (as mathematicians often do) rather than > > explicit ones in numbers or polynomials. > > You might want to look at the following documentation since geometric > algebra includes vector spaces: > > http://docs.sympy.org/modules/galgebra/GA/GAsympy.html --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To post to this group, send email to sympy@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sympy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
