For anyone who may be interested in this, I have now put submitted my proposal on Melange <https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/student/google/gsoc2015/jennifercrwhite/5629499534213120>and have also put the most relevant parts on the SymPy Wiki <https://github.com/sympy/sympy/wiki/GSoC-2015-Application:-Representing-Groups-in-Terms-of-Finite-Applications>. I would very much appreciate any comments or suggestions. I can't seem to find the suggested mentor for this project so any suggestions or improvements are very welcome
On Tuesday, March 10, 2015 at 3:54:56 PM UTC, Aaron Meurer wrote: > > Those both sound like good ideas. I would look into what the > prerequisites for each are so you can see what is already implemented > and what needs to be implemented. > > Aaron Meurer > > On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 8:27 AM, Jennifer White <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > > Thanks for your response. > > The two areas that I had particular interest in were representing groups > > symbolically as you mentioned, and also potentially looking into > generating > > Galois Groups. Do you think these would be good areas to start with? > > Obviously there is a huge amount that could be done in this area and I > don't > > want to be unrealistically ambitious! > > > > On Monday, March 9, 2015 at 5:03:16 PM UTC, Aaron Meurer wrote: > >> > >> Looking at what SymPy can currently do and what GAP can do are both > >> good places to start. > >> > >> I personally would like to see SymPy be able to represent groups in > >> ways other than just as permutation groups, e.g., symbolically from > >> generators. This also opens up the possibility to have some parts of > >> the module that work with infinite groups. > >> > >> Group theory is huge, and you could work on it for 20 summers and > >> still have things to implement, so I would try to find some specific > >> thing that SymPy cannot do but other systems like GAP or Sage can, and > >> make a project out of that. > >> > >> Aaron Meurer > >> > >> On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 5:34 AM, Jennifer White <[email protected]> > >> wrote: > >> > Hi, > >> > I'm Jennifer, I'm a 3rd year Maths/Physics student at the University > of > >> > Warwick UK. Last summer I interned at Google and now I'm looking to > get > >> > involved in some Open Source work and potentially GSoC. > >> > > >> > SymPy caught my eye, and particular the suggestion of implementing a > >> > Group > >> > Theory module, because Algebra and Groups are my specialist areas in > my > >> > degree and I thoroughly enjoy working with Python so I'm very > interested > >> > in > >> > formulating a proposal for this. > >> > > >> > I am new to Open Source work and using Git but I am very enthusiastic > >> > about > >> > learning new things and I was wondering where would be a good place > to > >> > start? > >> > > >> > I've taken modules in various aspects of Groups (most recently > looking > >> > at > >> > Representation and Character Theory) so I do have a fairly good > >> > understanding of the underpinning theory here. > >> > > >> > I plan to thoroughly investigate SymPy's existing capabilities with > >> > regards > >> > to groups as PermutationGroups and some special groups (like > Dihedral, > >> > Cyclic etc) are already implemented. I'm also going to have a look at > >> > what > >> > some existing systems like GAP can do and think about what the most > >> > fundamental functionalities that I need to get implemented are. > >> > > >> > Any advice or guidance is welcome > >> > > >> > -- > >> > 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. > >> > To view this discussion on the web visit > >> > > >> > > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/b2d5fc1c-911a-4f5c-b003-93571f8377e1%40googlegroups.com. > > > >> > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > > -- > > 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] <javascript:>. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <javascript:>. > > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy. > > To view this discussion on the web visit > > > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/2482dc87-dcce-47cf-9920-0fec91205550%40googlegroups.com. > > > > > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/7251c9b8-d061-4551-b546-a0ed66601602%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
