Along these lines, check out (and maybe quote) the July 2007 note from Doug McIlroy to the Haskell list: http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell/2007-July/019632.html
I've particularly been enjoying Doug's paper "The Music of Streams", mentioned in that note. - Conal On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 11:49 AM, Henning Thielemann < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 26 May 2008, Brent Yorgey wrote: > > Hi all! >> >> In a couple weeks I will be giving a short (15-min.) talk to an audience >> of >> mostly mathematicians, entitled "Executable Mathematics: A Whirlwind >> Introduction to Haskell". The idea will be to give a flavor of Haskell, >> its >> uniquenesses, and why it is a great language for playing around with >> mathematics, by way of some well-chosen examples. There are definitely >> plenty of such examples out there, and I've already found quite a few that >> I >> might use, but I thought I would send an email to the cafe to ask whether >> anyone has any code which you think particularly exemplifies some aspect >> of >> why Haskell is a great language for mathematics. I'm looking to include a >> wide range of examples, so any length (from a few to hundreds of lines of >> code) and any level (from simple number theory to things only a few people >> in the world understand) are fair game. >> > > The mathematical examples I like most are power series (including elegant > solution of differential equations and series inversion) and computable real > numbers. > > http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/numeric-prelude > > > http://darcs.haskell.org/numericprelude/src/MathObj/PowerSeries/DifferentialEquation.hs > > http://darcs.haskell.org/numericprelude/docs/README > > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe >
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