Friday, January 15, 2016

Thinking of using SageMathCloud in a college course?

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SageMathCloud course subscriptions "We are  college instructors of the calculus sequence and ODE’s.  If the college were to purchase ...
Friday, January 8, 2016

Mathematics Graduate School: preparation for non-academic employment

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This is about my personal experience as a mathematics professor whose students all have non-academic jobs that they love. This is in prepar...
Thursday, November 19, 2015

"Prime Numbers and the Riemann Hypothesis", Cambridge University Press, and SageMathCloud

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Overview Barry Mazur and I spent over a decade writing a popular math book "Prime Numbers and the Riemann Hypothesis", which wil...
Wednesday, September 30, 2015

What is SageMath's strategy?

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Here is SageMath 's strategy, or at least what my strategy toward SageMath has been for the last 5 years. Diagnose the problem Statem...
Tuesday, September 22, 2015

SageMathCloud's poor user retention rate

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Poor retention rate Many people try SageMathCloud , but only a small percentage stick around.   I definitely don't know why. Recent Sa...
Thursday, September 10, 2015

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Funding Open Source Mathematical Software in the United States I do not know how to get funding for open source mathematical software in ...
Saturday, September 5, 2015

The Simons Foundation and Open Source Software

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Jim Simons Jim Simons is a mathematician who left academia to start a hedge fund that beat the stock market. He contributes back to the ma...