Hi
On 14 February 2014 17:46, rjf <fate...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Wednesday, February 12, 2014 8:26:50 AM UTC-8, Chris Gorman wrote: >> >> Does anyone have know who is working on improving the numerical methods >> in Sage? I am beginning my graduate program in numerical analysis and would >> like to use Sage for my work and research. >> > > > 1. There are numerical scientific subroutine libraries accessible through > Maxima. I do not know > if they are easily accessible via Sage, but you could use Maxima directly. > Including in some cases > arbitrary-precision versions. > > 2. Typically it makes sense to use the tools that your research advisor > and fellow students are using. > Typically this is not Sage (or Maxima). You might be able to find > something "numerical" that you can do that is interesting in Sage that you > can't do with other tools, but as a beginning grad student you should learn > those other tools too. Often this is Matlab. > Good luck. > Also Octave, Scilab, or Freemat as various levels of free/Free alternatives in differing ways compatible with Matlab. Octave is in Sage. Also more and more typically SciPy and NumPy are also used as a main numerical tool, also included in Sage. Perhaps asking on the SciPy / NumPy lists could yield even more possibilities. Regards, Jan -- .~. /V\ Jan Groenewald /( )\ www.aims.ac.za ^^-^^ -- 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 post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
