(This applies to all potential GSoC applicants) Don't worry if there is someone to mentor your GSoC project. Just apply, and if we like the application, we will find someone to mentor it. We try very hard to avoid not accepting a good student just because there are no mentors for the project.
Aaron Meurer On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 12:02 PM, Matthew Rocklin <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. >> >> >> >> -- >> >> 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. >> >> >> >> -- >> Harsh >> >> -- >> 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. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. 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