A good place to start would be to look through the various issues and pull requests on the issue tracker that are related to tensors.
By the way, I'm unsure if the goal should be to refactor the matrices to use the tensors. But maybe others disagree. Aaron Meurer On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 2:13 PM, Peeyush Kushwaha <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > My name is Peeyush, I've been a hobby developer since when I was in school > and I'm currently a first year undergraduate student enrolled in a Computer > Science and Applied Mathematics programme at Indraprastha Institute of > Information Technology, Delhi, India. > > I want to work on 3 related things: > > Work on the tensor module so that we could refactor the whole matrix module > to internally use tensors. > Interoperability between scalars and rank 0 tensors > Implement a module for creating different Vector Spaces (Similar in > application to coordinate systems functionality in vector module, but for > n-dimensional vectors) > > I've taken a course in Linear Algebra but it did not cover tensors so I'll > be teaching myself tensors in the summer as I go along. I have a lot of > informal software development experience (working on own projects and > libraries) and I'm very comfortable using git, writing documentation, unit > tests, and code organization. > > I originally wanted to contact @mrocklin and discuss these ideas because he > is listed as only interested party on the wiki page for Linear Algebra > Vision (a page which the ideas page for tensor core links to), but I'm not > sure if he is actively involved with the project anymore and I'm unsure who > to ask. > > I specifically want to discuss the time each of these 3 might take. The > ideas page mentions that "SymPy has a number of disconnected projects > related to Tensor/Linear algebra. These include Matrices, Sparse Matrices, > Matrix Expressions, Indexed (for code generation), Geometric Algebra, > Differential Geometry, Tensor Canonicalization, and various projects in > Physics." I've had a quick look at the current source code for matrices and > tensors, but I still need some help breaking down my goals into sub-tasks > while taking care of all the disconnected projects that are mentioned, and > identifying how much time they may take, and if it is suitable for a GSoC > proposal (too much / too less work) or not. > > Sincerely, > Peeyush Kushwaha > > -- > 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 https://groups.google.com/group/sympy. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/9f878a24-4ae9-452c-bbe3-911e4a03cc2c%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 https://groups.google.com/group/sympy. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/CAKgW%3D6%2B2W8-CeTmWT6gy7NvEOONiLU3NjZsA_SGNyoeP08Atfw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
