Re: tasks overview wishlist: Canonical citing reference

2008-10-07 Thread Ben Burton
There might be things where software can actually be used as academical contribution to some paper, but all examples I've yet seen were just ridicilously broad. FWIW, it's not uncommon in my field (discrete mathematics). In particular, there are proofs that rely on very large but finite case

Additional mathematics packages

2008-08-01 Thread Ben Burton
Hi all, I'm kind out of the loop with what's going on here on debian-science, but anyway -- I came across the page of mathematics packages: http://cdd.alioth.debian.org/science/tasks/mathematics.html Can I propose two additions to this list? The packages are regina-normal and snappea, both

Re: Another bibliography management software.

2008-05-01 Thread Ben Burton
The best replacement to the bubble system I can think of is some source management system, like git, hg, or svn. I'm not sure I'd be able to easily sway my advisor to learn to use either one of those, though. I did a joint paper this year with someone in France using a subversion repository,

Re: Bug#361418: Debian menu and the Apps/Science section

2006-05-16 Thread Ben Burton
I added another section named Analysis, that contains general data analysis/plotting/calculation applications. I find them very similar to what is found in Math, so I consider moving Mathematics to Science a good idea. Again: we see that scientists make heavy use of mathematics, so all