Hi - I am the guy who started Sage. If you have any questions I can try to answer them here.
I have almost completely finished a visualization block coding system which sits on top of Numpy, Scipy, and Sage designed to help kids who are learning math on youtube, to be able to create "problem set" style save files which can be shared to supplement math education videos, and to create animations for my upcoming youtube channel for math education. It also has a fully functional debugger and console, its like web inspector but for math, so I have named it Math Inspector.
I think it's really exciting what is happening in the world of math education and the way that the medium of video is being used for the first time to communicate the joy of mathematics to the world, especially to young people. It's revolutionary. My goal has been to create a tool which enables people to be able to interact with Sage without needing to even know python at all. I wish you the best!
I'm doing some research on ed-tech tools and helping students learn by creating and experimenting! I'd love to check out your tool and talk to you about it, but I see no way to contact you! Could you add a email or Twitter handle to your profile, or you could contact me, my details are on my HN user page.
I prefer to only correspond with serious mathematicians, and for fun recently I have been using Sage to work through Mochizuki's paper on Inter-universal Teichmüller theory, I got a little stuck on this passage, if you can explain it to me I will tell you more about my project:
"In the first three papers of the series, we introduced and studied the theory surrounding the log-theta-lattice, a highly non-commutative two-dimensional diagram of “miniature models of conventional scheme theory”, called Θ±ell NF-Hodge theaters, that were associated, in the first paper of the series, to certain data, called initial Θ-data. This data includes an elliptic curve EF over a number field F , together with a prime number l ≥ 5. Consideration of various properties of the log-theta-lattice led naturally to the establishment, in the third paper of the series, of multiradial algorithms for constructing “splitting monoids of LGP-monoids”.
Just Kidding!!!!! I sent you an email =) Thanks so much for your interest in this project, looking forward to hearing more about what you are working on as well. Cheers!
I think sage should advertise more that it can be viewed as a big library + modified but compatible python 2, i.e. all your weird file parsers just work. I am looking forward a lot to finally get python 3 compatibility, for that reason (write as much of my code as possibly to run on cpython as well, not just sage-python; possibility of using stuff where only python 3 bindings exist).
Thank you.
It attacks a hard, hard problem and I’m super happy that it will eventually replace Mathematica so that anyone who wishes can see how the black box works.
Something seems a bit weird about that to me, because when I used it ~8 years ago Sage was great and none of the features I care about changed.
Do can I get a meta-comment on why Sage might struggle to get packaged for Debian in the way that, eg, Octave/maxima/R/etc do?
In sage 5.x the source code was quite small compared to today and could be patched with some effort. Today the project is huge and this would be impossible for one person to do.
It's vastly easier to just install sage using their own scripts from source and have some libraries duplicated. The sage source code build script is one of the simplest to use.
The problem is that sage actually depends on Octave, Maxima, R and many other packages. It parses binary output of many dependencies and often needs the exact version it expects because of that. It also has relatively brittle doctests testing everything an as a result often breaking on minor changes in dependencies.
If you have too much time, there is a very lengthy discussion on this on sage-packaging: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/sage-packaging/ZJmJZ...