SageMathCloud: Hello World
We are the SageMathCloud developers!This is just a test and we love math:$\Phi(x) = \frac{1}{\sqrt{2 \pi}} \int_{-\infty}^x e^{-\xi^2/2}\; d\xi$Expect more soon!
View ArticleSageMathCloud: Creating Custom “Mode Commands” in Sage Worksheets
What is a Mode Command?By default, running a cell in a Sage worksheet causes the input to be run as Sage commands, with output from Sage written to the output of the cell. Mode commands in a Sage...
View ArticleSageMathCloud: How do I start a Jupyter kernel in a SageMath Worksheet?
For a quick reminder, sample code is available for opening an Anaconda3 session. In the Sage worksheet toolbar, select Modes > Jupyter bridge.Use the jupyter command to launch any installed Jupyter...
View ArticleLauren Devitt: Final GSOC Report
Over the summer I have been coding for SAGE as part of Google Summer of Code 2016. I feel this opportunity has strengthened both my skills as a coder and as a mathematician. SAGE is an open source...
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Extending Matroid Functionality Google Summer of Code 2016: Overview of what...
My project has been extending the functionality of SageMath in a matroid direction.As part of my application, and before the summer officially started, I worked on two tickets:...
View ArticleSageMathCloud: First Status Update
William scripted status reports, organized several things related to billing, and spent hours working on subtle issues related to sync and file saving. Harald worked on the SMC blog, read emails, and...
View ArticleSageMathCloud: First Nightly Changelog
Our Nightly Changelog keeps you updated on small feature changes, bugfixes, and quality of life improvements. For upcoming changes, see our weekly progress report column.General UsageDeleting a file...
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William Stein
Funding Open Source Mathematical Software in the United StatesI do not know how to get funding for open source mathematical software in the United States. However, I'm trying.Why: Because Sage is...
View ArticleWilliam Stein: SageMath: "it's not research"
The University of Washington (UW) mathematics department has funding for grad students to "travel to conferences". What sort of travel funding? The department has some money available.The UW Graduate...
View ArticleWilliam Stein: RethinkDB must relicense NOW
What is RethinkDB?RethinkDB is a INCREDIBLE high quality polished open source realtime database that is easy to deploy, shard, replicate, and supports a reactive client programming model, which is...
View ArticleLauren Devitt: Knots by Number, Quipu
For my undergraduate thesis my focus was in knot theory, a subset of topology and a newer subject in mathematics. These are not the knots we think of in our daily life. The knots I studied had no ends...
View ArticleWilliam Stein: RethinkDB, SageMath, Andreessen-Horowitz, Basecamp and Open...
RethinkDB and sustainable business modelsThree weeks ago, I spent the evening of Sept 12, 2016 with Daniel Mewes, who is the lead engineer of RethinkDB (an open source database). I was also supposed to...
View ArticleLauren Devitt: Improbable by Number
As a Mathematician I enjoy reading non-fiction that is not too "mathy", one that makes subjects such as probability approachable. This is the first in a series of reviews of books I've been reading for...
View ArticleLauren Devitt: Logicomix- logic by number
A book review of Logicomix. Written by Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos H. Papadimitriou. Art by Alecos Papadatos and Annie Di Donna. This is the first graphic novel I've ever read. I had no idea mathe...
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Sébastien Labbé: A time evolution picture of packages built in parallel by Sage
Compiling sage takes a while and does a lot of stuff. Each time I am wondering which components takes so much time and which are fast. I wrote a module in my slabbe version 0.3b2 package available on...
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Liang Ze: Distributive Laws
I’ve been participating in the Kan Extension Seminar II, and this week it’s my turn to post about Jon Beck’s “Distributive Laws” at the n-Category Cafe!The post uses lots of string diagrams for monads,...
View ArticleHarald Schilly: SageMath GSoC 2017 Projects
6 GSoC SageMath ProjectsDuring the past couple of summers, SageMath successfully managed many Google Summer of Code projects. This year we are again happy to have six projects:Implementing matroid...
View ArticleOpenDreamKit: OOMMF Python interface presentation
Hans Fangohr presented the first prototype of the Python OOMMF interface at the 61st international meeting on magnetism and magnetic materials in New Orleans (US).Pdf slides of Talk
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