On 2012-12-02, Andrea Lazzarotto <andrea.lazzaro...@gmail.com> wrote: > --047d7bdc06aa11955104cfde8d29 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > 2012/12/2 Simon King <simon.k...@uni-jena.de> > >> I think, you as a computer scientist should be aware that one hardly >> ever needs to take into account 5 million lines of code (that's about >> the size of Sage) in order to understand and contribute to one aspect >> of the system. >> > > Ok but the point is that the entire structure of Sage is built keeping in > mind that everybody is a mathematician and knows how the thing works. It's > not about the 5 million lines (which is huge stuff if you face it for the > first time). It's about the math. > > Don't laugh too much but I don't even know what a polynomial ring is. :D
well, parts of CS such as programming languages or analysis of algorithms use quite a bit of maths, particularly algebra. Thus, learning what a ring is won't hurt, and it's not hard. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel?hl=en.
