Self Introduction

[abraham osmond]

Hi everyone! 

My name is Abraham and I am a year 3 Mathematical Science student at Nanyang Technological University, specializing in Applied Math. I am trying to learn more about open-sourcing, and I felt like contributing to SymPy would be great for me because of my math background and that I could finally apply my math knowledge :). 

• level of familiarity with python (years of programming, previous projects): been using python for 2 years, I've made an e-commerce website using Django, and I am currently making a scrabble website using react/Django. I also use python to solve algorithmic questions in Leetcode
  
  
• mathematical education level (high school / ... / PhD?): University, currently a year 3 mathematical science student in NTU Singapore.
  
  
• particular expertise (physics? biology? ...subtopics):  math, I guess? I wouldn't consider myself an expert though as I'm still an undergraduate.
  
  
• particular algorithmic interests: I'm not sure if I understood the question correctly, but I'm interested in working with the ODE library of SymPy.
  
  
• level of familiarity with symbolic math systems "computer algebra": Not familiar
  
  
• your familiarity with SymPy (e.g. how have you used SymPy)? Last semester I used SymPy to double-check my Ordinary Differential Equation assignments :)
  
  
• other possibly relevant information -- geographical location? native language?: I'm currently in Singapore, but I'm from Indonesia! I speak Indonesian and English

Looking forward to putting my math knowledge into good use and contributing to SymPy!

[Chris Smith]

selamat siang! Welcome to SymPy. You will want to check out the https://www.sympy.org/en/development.html and especially the link "how to prepare patches".

Chris

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[abraham osmond]

Hi Chris, thank you for the warm welcome!

Right now I'm reading through the development workflow and setting up the environment, will definitely check out the link that you sent, thank you!

I saw that there were "easy to fix" issues, but I saw that almost all of them has been taken/solved. As I'd like to work on the ODE module, would it be ok to dive deep into the ODE module, immediately or would it be better to start by fixing issues to get a better knowledge of how SymPy works?

Your advice is greatly appreciated!

[Chris Smith]

I would recommend starting with something simple to get through the push/commit cycle at least once. If there are issues that are marked as Easy but they are still open and there is not an active PR for them, feel free to take one of them.

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[Aditya Mishra]

Hi everyone! 

My name is Aditya kumar Mishra and I am a year 2 Electronics  student at Deen Dayal Upadhyaya college. I am trying to learn more about open-sourcing, and I felt like contributing to SymPy would be great, because recently i have completed lots of course of mathematics from IIT and this would help in developing new features for sympy 

• level of familiarity with python (1 year programming experience): been using python for 1 years, I've made an script for reverse shell and data parisng, I also use python to solve algorithmic questions in Hackerrank
  
  
• mathematical education level (high school / ... / PhD?): Currently doing some maths courses from IIT
  
  
• particular expertise (physics? biology? ...subtopics): Maths and Statistics
  
  
• particular algorithmic interests: I am currently learning new algorithms so don't know what's my taste yet , but recently i had learned about some recursions algorithm, BFS,DFS and more
  
  
• level of familiarity with symbolic math systems "computer algebra": I have used some features of numpy to do some mathematical computation 
  
  
• your familiarity with SymPy : I am not that much familiar with sympy but i am following tutorials from your webpage
  
  
• other possibly relevant information -- geographical location? native language?: I'm from india and , my native language is hindi , but i can also talk fluently in english

Looking forward to putting my math knowledge into good use and contributing to SymPy!

Thank you

Aditya kr.

[Siddharth Garg]

Hi everyone! 

My name is Siddharth Garg. I am a 2nd year Computer Science Engineering student at CMRIT College, Bangalore, India. I am new to open-sourcing and felt comfortable with SymPy as it is based more on the logical and mathematical concepts.

• level of familiarity with python (3 year programming experience): I have been using python for almost 4 years now, mostly for solving algorithmic questions on codingame.com, hackerearth.com and hackerrank.com ( hackerrank-5 star rating), also made some games, discord bots, mini-projects. learning Web-Scraping.

• mathematical education level (high school / ... / PhD?): Studying math along the course guidelines of B.Tech (Computer Science Engineering) course.

• particular expertise (physics? biology? ...subtopics):  math, but am still an undergraduate so not an expert.
  
  
• particular algorithmic interests: I don't quite get the question but I love solving  algorithms problems using programming.
  
  
• level of familiarity with symbolic math systems "computer algebra":  Not familiar
  
  
• your familiarity with SymPy : Found it on the GSoC 2021 page and am following the tutorial given on the github page.
  
  
• other possibly relevant information -- geographical location? native language?: I am from India and my native language is Hindi. Also fluent in English.

Looking forward to expand my horizons by putting my math knowledge into good use and contributing to SymPy!

[ARAVIND MOHANDAS]

Hi everyone!

My name is Aravind Mohandas and I am a postgraduate student in Mathematics at Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, India. This is my first time contributing to open source, and I really look forward to the experience.

• Level of familiarity with python : I've been using python for the last three years, and did my undergraduate project using the same. I used to make an online multiplayer version of the an Indian Strategic board game, and developed the code to play with the AI for the same.
• Mathematical education level: I'm currently in my first year of a Master's in Mathematics.
• Particular expertise: Computer science and Statistics, my Bachelor's degree was a triple major in Computer Science, Mathematics and Statistics.
• Particular algorithmic interests: I enjoy algorithmic programming, and spend a lot of my time doing questions from previous years' coding competitions.
• Level of familiarity with symbolic math systems:  Intermediate.
• Your familiarity with Sympy: I've used sympy for the majority of my Bachelor's degree, as I had most of my mathematics labs in python.

Really looking forward to contributing to Sympy!!!

[Krishna Kant Gupta]

Hi everyone! 

My name is Krishna Kant Gupta. I am a 2nd year Information Science Engineering student at CMRIT College, Bangalore, India. I am new to the world of open source contribution but I am enthusiastic and determined to make some contributions going. I felt like contributing to SymPy would be great because of the interest I have for mathematics right from my 10th standard.

• level of familiarity with python (1 year programming experience): I have close to 1 year of experience learning python. I have done some python courses on Coursera and Udemy and as part of college doing fake news detection project in python.

• mathematical education level (high school / ... / PhD?): Currently studying mathematics as part of college curriculum along with the B.E.(Information Science and Engineering) course

• particular expertise (physics? biology? ...subtopics):  I do not have any particular expertise in maths but I love infinite series, geometry and number theory a lot. I like to challenge myself to find alternatives to using conventional ways of solving mathematics
  
  
• particular algorithmic interests: I am new to this but as far as data structures is concerned I like greedy algorithms. As far as maths is concerned I devised my own method to find the nth root of a number.
  
  
• level of familiarity with symbolic math systems "computer algebra": I am new to this but whatever introductory I know about this it interests me
  
  
• your familiarity with SymPy : I came to know about it from GSOC page and following the SymPy website, Github page and Linkedin page.
  
  
• other possibly relevant information -- geographical location? native language?: I am from Bengaluru, India. My native language is Hindi. I am fluent in English.

Looking forward to utilize my math knowledge to a great extent and contributing to SymPy!

[Sankalp Joshi]

Hi everyone!

 I am Sankalp Joshi currently a final Year Electrical Engineering student at NIT Warangal(India). I am looking forward to learn open source development and found sympy  as a great opportunity with my inclination towards Mathematics . I am fluent in c++ and python . I am also interested in Machine learning ,Deep Learning and NLP,SQL/NOSQL,JAVA.

Looking forward to learn and grow with sympy!!

[Vaibhav Mishra]

Hey there, this is Vaibhav Mishra, first year undergrad of IIT Tirupati. 

I love programming in python and also fond of mathematics. I often used the Latex software to write mathematical papers and presentations.

So I'm really excited from what Sympy is and want to contribute to the organization.

Could someone guide me how do I start contributing up to some initial steps.

Thanking you,

regards Vaibhav Mishra

[Ani]

Hi everyone!

I am Aniruddh Patil, a sophomore majoring in chemical engineering at Indian Institute of Technology BHU. I am new to open source, and would love to contribute to sympy as I'm really interested in computer algebra systems, and also love math.

• level of familiarity with python : I'm comfortable with using python although I haven't done any major projects. I have used python to some extent in competitive programming.
  
  
• mathematical education level : I have taken courses on group theory, linear algebra and numerical methods as part of my major. 
  
  
• particular expertise :  I don't have a particular expertise.
  
  
• particular algorithmic interests: I'm particularly interested in combinatorics and number theory.
  
  
• level of familiarity with symbolic math systems "computer algebra": I would consider myself a beginner. I have used sympy to some extent, but haven't used any other CAS.
  
  
• your familiarity with SymPy :  I have used sympy for a while now, for coursework and also through my own interest. I haven't explored it in depth though. I am quite interested in understanding how CAS systems work under the hood.
  
  
• other possibly relevant information -- geographical location? native language?: I am fluent with English. I live in Mumbai city in India.

Looking forward to learning and contributing!