Tuesday, July 26, 2016

Jupyter: "take the domain name down immediately"

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The Jupyter notebook is an open source BSD-licensed browser-based code execution environment, inspired by my early work on the Sage Noteboo...
Wednesday, February 24, 2016

Elliptic curves: Magma versus Sage

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Elliptic Curves Elliptic curves are certain types of nonsingular plane cubic curves, e.g., y^2 = x^3 + ax +b, which are central to both nu...
Tuesday, February 23, 2016

"If you were new faculty, would you start something like SageMathCloud sooner?"

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I was recently asked by a young academic: "If you were a new faculty member again, would you start something like SageMathCloud sooner ...
Wednesday, February 10, 2016

Open source is now ready to compete with Mathematica for use in the classroom

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When I think about what makes SageMath different, one of the most fundamental things is that it was created by people who use it every d...
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...