On Sunday 25 November 2007, William Stein 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.
Okay, I'll remove the mention of p-adics and add more applied examples. My Live Demo already was pretty non-pure, though. Martin -- name: Martin Albrecht _pgp: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x8EF0DC99 _www: http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/~malb _jab: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
