Very nice - thank you for creating this! I hope you don't mind - I have taken advantage of your license and posted them to http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/wdj/teaching/worksheets/ as well.
On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 12:39 AM, Rob Beezer <[email protected]> wrote: > > I've written a short (14-page) primer on using basic group theory > commands in SAGE. It is available in the "Sage Documentation Project" > area of the wiki, and via direct links below. > > The purpose is to help students (and faculty) in an introductory group > theory course get started using the appropriate commands in SAGE for > studying groups. So all the groups are represented as permutation > groups, the examples are relatively small, and the ordering of topics > might parallel the way a standard course would proceed. There is a > table at the end with a SAGE construction of every group with 15 or > fewer elements. > > It is not meant to be a gee-whiz demonstration of SAGE's power, or to > show the most efficient means of doing every computation. It assumes > no knowledge of Python, but anybody who works through it will learn > some Python, perhaps without realizing it. My broader purpose is > subversive - to promote the uptake of SAGE with a demonstration of its > value in teaching undergraduates. > > I am also using this as a test case for a LaTeX to Sage-Worksheet > conversion process. (Give the worksheet a look, with its live > executable cells). I will post to sage-devel about the technical > portion of this project. Here in sage-edu, I welcome comments, > corrections and suggestions about the content. I hope folks find this > useful. > > Rob > > http://buzzard.ups.edu/sage/sage-group-theory-primer.sws > http://buzzard.ups.edu/sage/sage-group-theory-primer.pdf > http://buzzard.ups.edu/sage/sage-group-theory-primer.tex > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
