Thursday, May 29, 2008

GMP forked; Torbjorn Granlund: "blatant falsehoods and sinister insinuations"

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Torbjorn Granlund: > The other publicly stated reasons are a mixture of > blatant falsehoods and sinister insinuations. > This fork...
Thursday, May 1, 2008

Can There be a Viable Free Open Source Alternative to Magma, Maple, Mathematica, and Matlab?

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For over a decade I have primarily done research in number theory that often involves computation, mainly using Magma. In 2004 I realized t...
Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Sage-3.0 and Beyond

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Finally, after much hard work, Sage-3.0 has been released! This release has tons of bug fixes plus several new features such as interact mo...
Tuesday, April 8, 2008

Google Funds Sage!!

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Today Chris DiBona (open source programs manager at Google) fully funded a proposal [pdf] that some students and I put together to carry o...
Friday, February 29, 2008

This is what I would like in Sage 3.0

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DOCUMENTATION: cd SAGE_ROOT/devel/sage/sage/; sage -coverage . should output Overall weighted coverage score: x% [[where x >= 50]] Mor...
Thursday, February 21, 2008

Mathematics Research, Education, and Sage

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I think there is a brewing tension between education and research amongst developers involved with the Sage project. More on that in a mome...
Saturday, February 9, 2008

Benchmarketing: Modular Hermite Normal Form

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Two days ago there was no fast freely available open source implementation of computation of the Hermite Normal Form of a (square nonsingul...