On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 2:50 AM, David Joyner <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Some off-the-top-of-my-head comments after a brief scan of the proposal.
>
> 1. You say "I have not found any software implementation of anything
> closely related to category theory."
> There is a combinatorics group (email list sage-combinat), composed of mostly
> French and German mathematicians, who are implementing this type of thing
> in Sage. It is a mammoth undertaking on their part, but you might want
> to try to
> look at the structure of the classes for that project.

Thank you very much for the suggestion!  I've added this information
to my proposal; I will take a look at what those people are doing.

> 2. You list 3 "Benefits for SymPy". I would add a fourth. I often use
> the latex string
> output in for creating matrices in a paper. I think for writing a
> commutative diagram
> in a paper, it would be nice to have a latex output (as you say you
> will do, using
> Tikz). It is not clear to me how easy it will be to use your proposed set-up
> to simply output a commutative diagram in Tikz. For example, a casual
> user who simply wants a commutative diagram is not going to want to be
> setting up
> categories, etc. I guess I am wondering if you can "factor out" the
> diagram-drawing
> functionality you re planning on and thereby give more casual users a tool
> to draw diagrams for their papers.

I expect it to be quite easy to set up a commutative diagram; I
haven't explicitly stated this in the proposal, but I will certainly
make sure that a diagram will be easy to create.

Thank you for the suggestion!

@Tom, I do have an answer to your E-mail, but I don't feel very well
right now and I would hate to write weird sentences without being able
to express myself.

Sorry for the delay :-(

Sergiu

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