Thanks Aaron! I have already forked the code-base, I am studying the
assumptions system code.

Can you help me find some more documentation of the assumptions system?

On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 11:40 AM, Aaron Meurer <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi.
>
> Sorry for taking so long to reply. I don't know enough about logic myself to
> really tell you much. I can say that the idea is intimately tied in with the
> assumptions. We currently have two assumptions systems, the old one that
> needs to be removed and the new one that needs to be improved to a usable
> state.
>
> For logic, I do know that we don't have any second order logic implemented
> (quantifiers).
>
> I recommend that you start looking at the code, and start looking for
> something you can do to satisfy the patch requirement.
>
> Aaron Meurer
>
> On Thursday, March 1, 2012, Alok <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi there,
>>
>>
>> Firstly, I would like to introduce myself to the group:
>>
>> I am a third year undergraduate student from BITS Pilani University,
>> India. My major is Information Systems. Talking about the academic
>> prowess/experience in the field, I had done a course, titled  "Logic
>> in Computer Science", last year. Apart from that I have done regular
>> courses on "Discrete Math", "Data Structures and Algorithms", "Linear
>> Algebra" previously.
>>
>> Coming to my coding skills, I am an advanced Python programmer with
>> around one year of experience in coding different algorithms/data-
>> structures, writing server-client socket applications for my personal
>> usage, playing with the twitter API etc.
>>
>> Apart from this, I have experience in using Prolog, which I used
>> during my Logic in CS course to test and implement formal logic rules
>> and predicates.
>>
>>
>> Coming to the idea itself:
>>
>> I quite liked the idea, when I saw it first on the ideas page[1]. I
>> skimmed through the /sympy/assumptions/ directory[2] on github, and
>> the first feeling was that, "this is nice and clean". And I could
>> possibly do it, once I get a hang of it.
>>
>> I am well versed with the conceptual parts of the subject and using
>> such systems from the outside, but getting under-the-hood and writing
>> such programs would be a first time for me.
>>
>> Could someone please lay-down the idea in more concrete and acheivable
>> terms for me, like you have to implement Natural Deduction Rules or
>> implement Quantifier Equivalences etc.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Alok
>>
>> [1]: https://github.com/sympy/sympy/wiki/gsoc-2012-Ideas
>> [2]: https://github.com/sympy/sympy/tree/master/sympy/assumptions
>>
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