I went through the paper "Symbolic summation with radical expression" and I found myself unable to understand many points due to my insufficient mathematical background which is summarized below:
1. Calculus(Single and Multivariable) 2. Coordinate Geometry 3. Sequences Series (General properties of series) 4. Complex numbers 5. Basic Linear Algebra 6. Binomial Theorem, Permutation and Combination I haven't done any abstract algebra. However, I went through the idea list and found the idea "SYMBOLIC COMPUTATION OF INTEGRALS BY RECURRENCE" interesting. I went through Michael Barnett's paper and it seemed approachable to me with my mathematical background. Also I saw that integration is currently done using Risch-Norman Algorithm, and it needs to be improved. Is the implementation of this algorithm appropriate as a Summer of code project? Is my mathematical background enough for the successful execution of this project? Regards -Saurabh Jha On Mar 23, 7:50 pm, Sergiu Ivanov <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 4:20 PM, Saurabh Jha <[email protected]> wrote: > > > My name is Saurabh Jha. I am currently pursuing B.Tech in computer > > science and engineering. I am very much interested in working in sympy > > project, more specifically on the idea "implement Karr algorithm, a > > decision procedure for symbolic summation". It's rated "very hard", so > > I wanted to know whether this idea is feasible for summer of code or > > it is too ambitious. > > In my understanding, if the idea is listed on the GSoC ideas list, it > can be done in a summer. > > Ideas which are rated as "very hard" will almost certainly require > solid mathematical background to understand the algorithms behind the > would-be implementation. > > Could you please describe your background in mathematics? > > Sergiu -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" 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/sympy?hl=en.
