On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 10:55 PM, Saurabh Jha <saurabh.j...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I went through the paper "Symbolic summation with radical expression" > and I found myself unable to understand many points due to my > insufficient mathematical background which is summarized below: > > 1. Calculus(Single and Multivariable) > 2. Coordinate Geometry > 3. Sequences Series (General properties of series) > 4. Complex numbers > 5. Basic Linear Algebra > 6. Binomial Theorem, Permutation and Combination > > I haven't done any abstract algebra. > However, I went through the idea list and found the idea "SYMBOLIC > COMPUTATION OF INTEGRALS BY RECURRENCE" interesting. I went through > Michael Barnett's paper and it seemed approachable to me with my > mathematical background. Also I saw that integration is currently done > using Risch-Norman Algorithm, and it needs to be improved.
I guess this last detail is the essential one. In my opinion, if you understand the article sufficiently well to write a good proposal, you are quite fit to actually implement the necessary functionality. However, you should wait for Aaron's opinion on this matter. > Is the implementation of this algorithm appropriate as a Summer of > code project? It is mentioned on [0], so, I guess it's appropriate. Sergiu [0] https://github.com/sympy/sympy/wiki/GSoC-2012-Ideas -- 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.
