Hi Sage Devs, As further motivation for this discussion of "Modularization project: I. The goals", here is a quote from a discussion just now (with permission) from Eric Deeds, who is the vice chair for Life Sciences Math Courses and Professor of Integrative Biology and Physiology at UCLA:
"I think we may also switch to using Python with libraries, rather than SageMath since Python is much more widely used." At UCLA they currently use SageMath (the full environment and language) with about 3K students per year, and are considering switching from Sage to normal Python, since sage is its own custom language and environment, which isn't exactly the Python language, etc. This is motivation for modularization of sage, since there is substantial functionality in Sage, e.g., "plotting vector fields", which they would like to use still. Of course, I did explain how it is possible to use normal Python and import sage via "from sage.all import ...". However, properly supporting using Sage from Python like any other Python citizen would be even better, and that's something that would result from the project Matthias is spearheading. -- William On Mon, Jun 12, 2023 at 4:54 PM Nathan Dunfield <nat...@dunfield.info> wrote: > > On Monday, June 12, 2023 at 2:58:18 PM UTC-4 Matthias Koeppe wrote: > > What parts of Sage does SnapPy use? > > > Primarily the various rings/fields, including matrices over them and basic > linear algebra. Specifically, interval arithmetic > (Real/ComplexIntervalField), polynomial rings (in several variables, > including Laurent polynomials), number fields, and the basic rings ZZ, QQ, > GF, RealField, ComplexField, etc. Also, the ptolemy submodule uses Sage for > groebner_basis calculations. I suspect most of what we use would be part of > any initial pip-installable version of the Sage library. Right now, in the > stand-alone apps we backstop some of Sage's functionality (e.g. arbitrary > precision floats) with CyPari, which is itself an example of part of Sage > being modularized. > > Best, > > Nathan > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-devel" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/4b14371d-b528-4b43-b350-5920259c88e1n%40googlegroups.com. -- William (http://wstein.org) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/CACLE5GBRgynLjbo7dh%2BTuMm6tC_hzuXfC3uBFCX68QOZZSQmxg%40mail.gmail.com.
