On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 12:37 PM, Harsh Gupta <[email protected]> wrote: > PyCon India was fun indeed, here are some feedback from the workshop: > > * Many of the workshop participants asked how does SymPy compare with > other CAS like Mathematica, Maple and Matlab. We should update the > SymPy vs X docs on the wiki.
I believe this page is also pretty accurate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_computer_algebra_systems. Aaron Meurer > > * The workshop was over represented by Data Scientists and they were > particularly interested in Stats module. For them our workshop was the > first introduction of SymPy and Symbolic Computation. > > * One participant who works on Computer Vision is interested in > SymPy's differential geometry capabilities and our modules on > manifolds and Lie Algebras. I told him about the work of Mary Clark > [1] but I have only a surface level understanding of these areas so I > couldn't talk a lot. I've cc'ed him on this post, it will be really > nice if someone on this group can give an overview about what SymPy > can and cannot do in these areas. > > * Younger participants who are still in the university were very > enthusiastic about SymPy because it participates in GSoC, some of them > also send a few patches after PyCon. > > * Arrange a lot of flash drives with the latest SymPy source before > the workshop begins. > > -- > Harsh > > [1]: > https://github.com/sympy/sympy/wiki/GSOC-Report-2013-Mary-Clark:-Lie-Algebras > > -- > 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/CADN8iuorgaHj1vpgFU-TgywhxXD1DGzJDk5r%2B7t%3DCBeL8pTyvg%40mail.gmail.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/CAKgW%3D6%2BUvOcz%2BWj8%2Bkdvomqh5ycnUuabCjOvE0wHDDEmujCw5Q%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
