On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 1:32 PM, David Joyner <wdjoy...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 2:36 PM, Mary Clark <mary.spritel...@gmail.com> wrote: >> David: Do you have anything specific that you think would be beneficial to >> be implemented? > > > I think it would be nice to have the "classical" groups over finite fields > implemented, as well as their representations as permutation groups. > > Also nice would be finite abelian *additive* groups. > >> >> Aaron: What you said makes a lot of sense. I think that it could be really >> useful to also implement presentations of groups. >> > > > My guess is that representing finite groups as finitely presented groups > could stretch into a multi-year project before completion. It would be cool > to have that implemented though!
Definitely. A lot of the work is getting a good framework in place, even if most of the code is just raising NotImplementedError for the time being. Aaron Meurer > > >> >> On Wednesday, 27 February 2013 15:18:32 UTC, Mary Clark wrote: >>> >>> In addition to what Aaron said in this pull request >>> (https://github.com/sympy/sympy/pull/1810) about redesigning how some of the >>> group theory code works, what other things are still waiting to be >>> implement/are wanted to be added? >>> >>> I personally think that most of the stuff about groups should be moved out >>> of combinatorics and into its own file. Additionally most stuff seems to be >>> dedicated specifically to permutation groups, and not towards things more >>> general. >>> >>> In addition to thinking about a project on lie groups/algebras, I'm also >>> quite interested in computational group theory, so if there was a lot of >>> outstanding work to be done with this module, I'd love to do it as a gsoc >>> project. >>> >>> Mary >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "sympy" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to sympy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to sympy@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy?hl=en. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sympy" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sympy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to sympy@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sympy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sympy@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
