Re: [sage-devel] Re: Sage accepted for GSoC 2014

2014-02-26 Thread mmarco
Nice work of documentation. Here is some further documentation that could be interesting: About methods to compute alexander polynomials, the classical result is Theorem 3.11 from Birman's book (note that this is basically what you said, since the burau representation is deeply related to the

[sage-devel] Re: Sage accepted for GSoC 2014

2014-02-26 Thread mmarco
Thanks for the link. I have tried to compile it, but got this error message: /usr/bin/ld: cannot open output file ./bin/knotfind: No such file or directory collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status make: *** [knotfind] Error 1 El martes, 25 de febrero de 2014 23:17:56 UTC+1, Dima Pasechnik

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Sage accepted for GSoC 2014

2014-02-26 Thread mmarco
Of course, i forgot to mention the already mentioned knotscape, snappy and knotplot. -- 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] Re: Sage accepted for GSoC 2014

2014-02-26 Thread Dima Pasechnik
On 2014-02-26, mmarco mma...@unizar.es wrote: Thanks for the link. I have tried to compile it, but got this error message: /usr/bin/ld: cannot open output file ./bin/knotfind: No such file or directory collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status make: *** [knotfind] Error 1 I see. Make an

[sage-devel] Re: Sage accepted for GSoC 2014

2014-02-26 Thread mmarco
In my case, i needed to also change the knostcape script to point to the actual directory, instead of a directory of /tmp -- 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

[sage-devel] Re: Sage accepted for GSoC 2014

2014-02-26 Thread Dima Pasechnik
On 2014-02-26, mmarco mma...@unizar.es wrote: In my case, i needed to also change the knostcape script to point to the actual directory, instead of a directory of /tmp sure. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups sage-devel group. To unsubscribe from

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Sage accepted for GSoC 2014

2014-02-25 Thread Amit Jamadagni
Hello Vincent, Thanks for the reply. I wanted to work on the implementation as it was mentioned in the ideas page( https://docs.google.com/document/d/15v7lXZR1U4H2pT21d2fyPduYGb74JAFjkXJ6CWYmYfw/pub). I have introduced myself and posted about the same on the sage-gsoc google group. I

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Sage accepted for GSoC 2014

2014-02-25 Thread Volker Braun
We certainly could to use some of the SnapPy parts, like look at the Tcl/Tk link editor. But thats not going to integrate into the notebook. Also, link plots could look imho better. Apart from the GUI side, we need something that we can interface with more research-y codes written in GAP or

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Sage accepted for GSoC 2014

2014-02-25 Thread Amit Jamadagni
Hello Volker, Thanks for the reply. As I have posted in the recent threads, I would like to discuss this project and have created a thread for the same on the sage-gsoc group. I hope you've had a look at it ( https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/sage-gsoc/tb2O7zEoUx0) , it would

[sage-devel] Re: Sage accepted for GSoC 2014

2014-02-25 Thread mmarco
I would be happy to mentor a student in a knot theory related project in sage. I had mainly two ideas: First idea is to write a class for knots/links. This class should be able to translate between the different possible representations of links (Gauss codes, 3d curves, braid closure...) and

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Sage accepted for GSoC 2014

2014-02-25 Thread kcrisman
[2] http://legacy.earlham.edu/~peters/knotlink.htm#software *June 2, 2004*. Unfortunately I no longer have time to update *Knots on the Web*. I know it conntains many dead links and omits many good, new sites. And my understanding is that the Knot Atlas

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Sage accepted for GSoC 2014

2014-02-25 Thread Amit Jamadagni
I have been going through the implementation Knot Atlas, as per my understanding they have stored the knots in a table and have inputted it to get various results, I would like to know whether we will be using tables to input or any other way to input. I have seen through Vogel's algorithm which

[sage-devel] Re: Sage accepted for GSoC 2014

2014-02-25 Thread Dima Pasechnik
On 2014-02-25, mmarco mma...@unizar.es wrote: I would be happy to mentor a student in a knot theory related project in sage. I had mainly two ideas: First idea is to write a class for knots/links. This class should be able to translate between the different possible representations of links

[sage-devel] Re: Sage accepted for GSoC 2014

2014-02-24 Thread mmarco
Good to hear. Do we already know how many students will be assigned? -- 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

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Sage accepted for GSoC 2014

2014-02-24 Thread Harald Schilly
No. First we need the proposals and we evaluate and rank them. This means, everyone discusses them, gives them a number from 0 to 10, and we set their state to ok (or however it is called) or invalid. Then I am, in my role as administrator, tell google melange two numbers: minimum number of how

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Sage accepted for GSoC 2014

2014-02-24 Thread William Stein
Somebody needs to update this: http://wiki.sagemath.org/GSoC On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 11:13 AM, Harald Schilly harald.schi...@gmail.com wrote: No. First we need the proposals and we evaluate and rank them. This means, everyone discusses them, gives them a number from 0 to 10, and we set their

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Sage accepted for GSoC 2014

2014-02-24 Thread Amit Jamadagni
Hello, 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. On Tue, Feb 25,

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Sage accepted for GSoC 2014

2014-02-24 Thread Vincent Delecroix
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