Hello everyone. This post is regarding the gsoc idea of implementing (or continuing ) the work of Aaron Meurer and Chetna Gupta on implementation of Risch Algorithm for symbolic integrations. I have gone through the PR mentioned on the ideas page. It seems there has been good progress last summer. I have fairly decent background in abstract algebra and universal algebra. Though I haven't formally done anything related to Differential Algebra.
I wished to know the following things: 1. There are 3 remaining tasks mentioned in the PR. Would it be okay to start on one of them ? (Most probably the one which asks to not hard code the value of 'a' ) 2. Has there been any progress other than that mentioned in that PR? 3. I have skimmed through the first chapter of Bronstein's book. Algebraic Preliminaries. Nothing new there. But the second chapter introduces algorithms which I have never implemented and some of them I had not even heard of. I would be really glad if you could tell me what sort of mathematical background is required to contribute efficiently to this part of the project. I would be really glad if you could link me to some literature on net which explains the Risch algorithm and implementation issues. In the meanwhile I'll try to procure the mentioned text from my college library. Apart from Aaron Meurer and Chetna Gupta who else has worked on this part ? It would be really nice if I knew more people familiar to this part of sympy so that I wont have to bug Aaron with every little issue :).. I have tried contacting Chetna but I guess she is not much active now. Cheers Anurag -- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
