"Brent Yorgey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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. >
I've enjoyed immensely several entries in Dan Piponi's 'A Neighborhood of Infinity'. In particular, 'Infinitesimal rotations and Lie algebras': <http://sigfpe.blogspot.com/2008/04/infinitesimal-rotations-and-lie.html> made me decide once and for all that i want to grok Haskell. HTH, jao -- Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company. - Mark Twain _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe