On 8/8/07, Martin Albrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 2.) undergrads taking calculus classes or people who use a CAS from time to > time only. If SAGE is to reach the 10.000 user mark it is probably this group > which makes up the big numbers. Many people on this list seem to assume so > too, because they suggested non-mathemtical means to increase the number of > users. >
I guess it depends on what you mean from time to time. I use Maple quite a bit (pretty close to daily), and I presented software I wrote to symbolically derive mass and stiffness matrices from first principles for finite element analysis at Maple's user conference in 2005. I've been trying to do nearly all my symbolic mathematics for my PhD research directly in Maple and I've been using MATLAB for my numerics. However, license restrictions have been a pain for MATLAB so I've been looking at moving away from both Maple and MATLAB and into SAGE since I'm somewhat familiar with both Python and SciPy. Unfortunately, learning to use SAGE for symbolic calculations has been quite a bit more difficult than learning Maple. With limited time (since I have to do my research) it appears that I'll be using SAGE for numerical calculations at most (at least for the foreseeable future). Cheers, Tim. --- Tim Lahey PhD Candidate, Systems Design Engineering University of Waterloo --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
