You'll need an understanding of basic field theory to understand those algorithms (maybe group theory too if they are using Galois theory).
Aaron Meurer On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 4:09 AM, Harsh Gupta <[email protected]> wrote: > Sorry for being passive for some days. I was busy with assignments and > some other stuff. > > >> See the work by R. Zippel and S. Landau. > > Are you talking these articles: > > http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/074771719290004N ( A > note on "Zippel Denesting" by Susan Landau ) > http://www.computer.org/csdl/proceedings/focs/1989/1982/00/063496.pdf > (Simplification of Nested Radicals by Susan Landau) > http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0747717185800146 ( > Simplification of expressions involving radicals by Richard Zippel) > > I also found this article: > http://pdf.aminer.org/001/059/825/simplification_of_nested_radicals.pdf > (How to denest Ramanujan's Nested Radicals by Johannes Blomer) > > I think having general denesting techniques will be very useful when > while working with higher order polynomials, we should try to > implement them in sympy. I read the first article (A note on Zipple > Denesting) and skimmed over the rest of them. It appears that all of > them need at least some knowledge of group theory in general. I have > no previous experience in working with group theory. So I want to know > what is the status of group theory and field theory in Sympy? Also I > wanted to know if it would be realistic if I read Group theory before > the summer and add it to the GSOC idea. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sympy" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
