Hi Stephen, For my MAA course:
TITLE: Using Sage to Spice up your Undergraduate Courses ABSTRACT: Sage (http://sagemath.org) is an open source mathematical software project that I started in 2005, which has around 50 active developers and funding from NSF, Google, Microsoft, and many other organizations. I will given an overview of how easy it is to install Sage, how many goodies come with the installation, and some of the benefits of open source. I will then demo many of the interesting capabilities of Sage in the context of undergraduate mathematics education. I'll talk about how to use R with Sage for introductory statistics, how to plot 2d and 3d functions, compute limits, derivatives, and integrals, and do linear algebra, group theory, and discrete mathematics. I'll also explain how to share online Sage notebooks, create interactive web-based demos of mathematics, and setup your own sage server like the one at http://sagenb.org. On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 9:29 AM, Stephen Glasby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How would you run the minicourse? Do you need Sage installed on each lab > computer? > I do not know whether the lab computers have enough memory for that. What are the computers in the lab? Are the Windows or OS X computers? What are my options for the minicourse? How many people will be there? How many total hours will it be? Is it on both Friday and Saturday? What formats are other courses going to be? > Can one do a lot using some of the nice examples that are on web pages? Yes. > In summary, I would go for the broad introduction to the advantages of Sage. > Once people come on board, they will hopefully develop code and contribute to > the project. I would like a free software counterbalance to Mathematica. I > think it > is best if each proponent showcases "their system" and avoids comparisons. > > I am very excited to learn more about Sage. You and your colleagues have made > great > progress! > > Best wishes, > Stephen > > P.S. By the way I got the error: > www.sagenb.org uses an invalid security certificate. > The certificate is not trusted because it is self signed. > So I have not checked out www.sagenb.org Can you please try again. I've completely rebuilt the sagenb.org site, and it now won't give any errors about security certificates, and should feel faster too. William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-edu" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-edu?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
