On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 12:18 AM, Aleksandar Makelov <amake...@college.harvard.edu> wrote: > Hi all, > > here's a preliminary version of my proposal to work on group theory: > > https://github.com/sympy/sympy/wiki/GSoC-2012-Application-Aleksandar-Makelov:-Group-theory > > I still have to complete the timeline and provide some more concrete > objectives and ways for implementation. Any feedback will be greatly > appreciated!
In general, I find it hard to comment on this proposal without knowing how much group theory you know and how well you know it. I have done some python programming in group theory, but need to know how much group theory you know and which algorithms are familiar with. At this stage, it seems much more important to say something realistic with a definite useful product in the end, than to lay out a great plan which might or might not get completely implemented. So: * Which group theory books have you read and feel you know well? * Which algorithms do you feel you can implement? A number of issues arising in abelian groups boil down to a problem in (integer) lattices. * How much linear algebra do you know? How much lattice theory (which you can regard as "linear algebra over the integers" or "linear algebra over a finite ring such as ZZ/nZZ") do you know? I hope this doesn't come out sounding critical. I'm trying to be very encouraging, but I think a good workable plan would have a better chance of being accepted by the powers that be. It will also be best for you in the long run. > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
