On May 17, 11:13 pm, Ondrej Certik <ond...@certik.cz> wrote:
* at the very end of the presentation there was a discussion about
numeric stuff. There are tons of computational programs in lots of
fields (atomic physics, quantum field theory, electromagnetics,
electronic structure calculations, fluid dynamics, atmospheric
sciences, nuclear engineering ....) and there is just no way how this
can all be in Sage. Nevertheless, people would like to teach with it,
let's say some electrodynamic course, or finite element course, or
(partial) differential equations course. Sage currently cannot do any
of that.
Why can't it all be included? At least as optional packages, I can
imagine having all of that in Sage. It just seems to be a chicken-and-
egg issue to me, we need those features to attract those users, and
the corresponding users to supply the packages. This is where Matlab
really has a huge lead, and it will take time to chip away at that.
But conceptually I don't understand why it couldn't happen.
-Marshall
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