On Nov 25, 2007 10:24 PM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Nov 25, 2007 11:52 AM, David Roe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have to agree. The slide where you list p-adic numbers, p-adic > > L-functions and p-adic height pairings kinda jumped out at me. While I'm > > obviously interested in that kind of stuff, it won't appeal as much to a > > non-specialist audience. > > Definitely completely delete that stuff. I also recently > gave a talk (at an AMS meeting in Albuqueque), and it is critical to > *not* emphasize these sorts of things too much, as I learned the hard > way. > > > One might argue that as things implemented natively in Sage, these will > > count toward the innovation category. Perhaps, but then you should > > emphasize that aspect, and tone down the words that the judges will have > > never heard before (ie p-adics). And I think Philippe does have a point > > that Sage does a lot in the innovation category that is more widely > > applicable. > > Yes. Like the notebook, interfaces to other programs such as Fortran, > Lisp, PARI, etc., using Python but making it usable for mathematics > via preparsing, very nice 2d graphics, etc. > > william > > And i would add a simple image : OpenOffice means that "anybody in the world" can have access to an "office" suite, which covers 99% of anybody's need. It's obvious that OpenOffice is NOT the best office suite and has some limitations. SAGE might soon be (maybe I'm wrong but...) usable by ANYBODY who needs to compute maths... or learn maths.
And, IMHO, that should be emphasised ! (how many people in the audience (not to speak of the jury member's)) have had a bad experiment in maths and would have loved to use such a software during their studies or work... Philippe --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
