Hello Amit, > I am a student and I would like to participate in SoC. I have > already posted about my interest on working about the implementation of > Knot Theory. Is it necessary that the message be forwarded to mentors or > any other mailing list other than this one ?? Thanks.
There are already plenty of math software for knot theory. One very active is SnapPy [1] but you can find several lists of softwares on the web such as [2]. SnapPy is licensed GPLv2+ so it should be compatible with Sage. SnapPy is already packaged for Sage [3] but the integration could be smoother (in particular the package might be available from sagemath.org website). If you are interested in knot theory, one option is to contact authors of SnapPy (Marc Culler and Nathan Dunfield from Chicago) and see if they can mentor you for a Sage related project. You can mention my name to them and if needed I could also possibly do part of the mentoring. In any case do not start from scratch implementing knots in Sage. It would be a waste of time. All best, Vincent Delecroix (from France) [1] http://www.math.uic.edu/t3m/SnapPy/ [2] http://legacy.earlham.edu/~peters/knotlink.htm#software [3] http://www.math.uic.edu/t3m/SnapPy/installing.html#sage -- 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.
