Vince Knight: Using Github pages and Python to distribute my conference talks
I’m very conscious about wanting to share as much of what I do as a research/instructor in as easy a way as possible. One example of this is the slides/decks that I use for talks I give. 3 or 4 years...
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Simon Spicer: How to efficiently enumerate prime numbers
There's a part in my code that requires me to evaluate a certain sum$$ \sum_{p\text{ prime }< \,M} h_E(p) $$where $h_E$ is a function related to specified elliptic curve that can be evaluated...
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Amit Jamadagni: Conversions, cleaning …
Hello everyone, The last week we focused on the conversions. Some parts are ready for the knots, in sense the standard input conversion is done but there is lots more to add to it. We are returning the...
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Vince Knight: Game Theory and Pavement Etiquette
Last week the BBC published an article entitled: ‘Advice for foreigners on how Britons walk’. The piece basically discusses the fact that in Britain there doesn’t seem to be any etiquette over which...
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Vince Knight: Installing and using Sage just got even easier.
+Sage Mathematical Software System just moved to git!This is awesome news for a variety of reasons. First of all it's great for development (you can take a look at the github repo here:...
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Amit Jamadagni: Revamped to work for links …
Hello everyone, The last week we focused on extending the current functionality to links. That involved a lot of refactoring the code. The methods have become more general and work for links. Some of...
View ArticleSimon Spicer: The average rank of elliptic curves
It's about time I should demonstrate the utility of the code I've written - the aim of the game for my GSoC project, after all, is to provide a new suite of tools with which to conduct mathematical...
View ArticleWilliam Stein: SageMathCloud -- history and status
2005: I made first release the SageMath software project, with the goal to create a viable open source free alternative to Mathematica, Magma, Maple, Matlab.2006: First web-based notebook interface for...
View ArticleVince Knight: A Sneak Preview of Game Theory in Sage (1/3): Cooperative Game...
+James Campbell and I spent a lot of time this Summer working on implementing some Game Theory in to Sage.In this post I’ll (very briefly) describe some of the process involved in contributing to Sage...
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Amit Jamadagni: Jones polynomial, the next week …
Hello everyone, This week we mainly focused on jones polynomial. The orientation method had few edits and we are expecting it to be fine. I started out with the implementation of jones polynomial, the...
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Simon Spicer: How big should Delta be?
Let's take a look at the central formula in my GSoC rank estimation code. Let $E$ be a rational elliptic curve with analytic rank $r$. Then$$ r < \sum_{\gamma} \text{sinc}^2(\Delta\gamma) =...
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Amit Jamadagni: Jones polynomial and plotting ….
Hello everyone, There has been a delay this time. This week I have worked on cleaning the code and I am trying to get to the standard required as well trying to clear the bugs which come along. I have...
View ArticleSimon Spicer: Things are Better in Parallel
A recent improvement I've implemented in my GSoC code is to allow for parallelized computation. The world has rapidly moved to multi-core as a default, so it makes sense to write code that can exploit...
View ArticleWilliam Stein: What is SageMathCloud: let's clear some things up
[PDF version of this blog post]"You will have to close source and commercialize Sage. It's inevitable." -- Michael Monagan, cofounder of Maple, told me this in 2006.SageMathCloud (SMC) is a website...
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Harald Schilly: New combinatorial designs in Sage - by Nathann Cohen
This is a guest post by Nathann Cohen. New combinatorial designs in SageBelow, these graphs are a decomposition of a $K_{13}$ (i.e. the complete graph on 13 points) into copies of $K_4$. Pick two...
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Amit Jamadagni: Edits, dowker notation, HOMFLY …
Hello everyone, This week we have been working on editing the code to reach the standards along side running the tests. A decent amount of time has been spent on documentation. Plot methods and 3d co...
View ArticleSimon Spicer: GSoC: Wrapping Up
Today marks the last day of my Google Summer of Code 2014 project. Evaluations are due midday Friday PDT, and code submissions for successfully passed projects start soon thereafter. The end result of...
View ArticleNikhil Peter: GSoC: An End, And A New Beginning
Well, it’s officially done. As per my proposal, the project has been officially completed. It’s been a rollercoaster ride of new experiences, a ton of code(by my count its somewhere around 20k lines or...
View ArticleWilliam Stein: You don't really think that Sage has failed, do you?
I just received an email from a postdoc in Europe, and very longtime contributor to the Sage project. He's asking for a letter of recommendation, since he has to leave the world of mathematical...
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Vince Knight: A Sneak Preview of Game Theory in Sage (2/3): Matching Games
In my previous post here I described some of the Sage development that +James Campbell and I spent a lot of time this Summer working on. In that post I described some work that has subsequently been...
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