GSoC 2023 Tensor Operations

[Wade Sultan]

Dear Sagemath Team,

My name is Wade Sultan, a third-year Mathematics and Economics student minoring in Computer Science at UCLA. I am writing to express my interest in working with Sagemath as a part of Google Summer of Code. In particular, I am interested in the project called "Tensor operations in Sage using Python libraries as backends". I work with tensors regularly as an officer for ACM AI at UCLA and I have studied linear algebra extensively as part of my major. 

I am interested in this project because it capitalizes on my understanding of linear algebra and tensors, as well as my experience with PyTorch and various other Python libraries. It also allows me to further my understanding of what happens under the hood with PyTorch and other libraries, which will help me make optimizations for future projects. 

I would like some resources to learn about some issues with this project. Thank you!

Regards,

Wade Sultan

[tcscrims]

Dear Wade,

   Thank you for your interest. As you are likely aware, our ideas page (https://wiki.sagemath.org/GSoC/2023) has the relevant information on drafting a proposal. Perhaps Matthias can say something more, but I think you should also get acquainted with some basics of manifolds and/or differential geometry as the current primary application is for performing such computations. This will help in better understanding how the backend code will be utilized. There are a number of resources available online on these subjects (I have found Wikipedia can be a reasonable first place to start, but that could be biased by my math background).

Best,

Travis