Neither qualified nor particularly well qualified to mentor this project.
For me the sets module was a good example of how to cleanly represent and
simplify expressions; I wasn't interested in the mathematical details of
how such simplifications are accomplished.  I'm more interested in
infrastructure than in actual mathematics.

That being said, I depend on SymPy's solvers quite a bit, and so strongly
encourage projects that improve them.


On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 9:48 AM, Harsh Gupta <[email protected]>wrote:

> As part of handling infinite solutions for something like (sin(x) ==
> 0) I have started some work in
> https://github.com/sympy/sympy/pull/2904.
> After this we will be able to have intersection of many infinite
> imagesets with finite sets.
> I think we should list out other set theoretic capabilities we will be
> needing to handle infinite solutions.
>
> BTW Matthew will you be a mentor for this project? The set theoretic
> capabilities of sympy is mainly due to you and we will needing more of
> them for this project. Also your Set Expression module will be useful
> if want return a Set as a solution.
>
> On 6 February 2014 07:06, Aaron Meurer <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 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.
> >>
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