Fwd: Sage Days 15 at University of Washington
William Stein
See below for a message from Andrei Okounkov, who will be around at UW
at the same time as Sage Days 15.
-- William
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From: Andrei Okounkov <>
Date: Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 6:51 PM
Subject: Re: Sage Days 15 at University of Washington
To: William Stein <wst...@gmail.com>
Dear William,
and indeed, Peter March of the NSF was quick to point out to me that not only
Sage exists but also "funding agencies are looking into it". Your project is
truly admirable; I am very much looking forward to meeting its
participants in person.
See you soon,
Andrei
William Stein wrote:
>
> Hi Andrei,
>
> I noticed this quote by you: "I think we need a symbolic standard to
> make computer manipulations easier to document and verify. And with
> all due respect to the free market, perhaps we should not be dependent
> on commercial software here. An open source project could, perhaps,
> find better answers to the obvious problems..."
>
> I started the Sage math software project in 2005 (http://sagemath.org)
> to address exactly those problems. We're having Sage Days 15 at
> University of Washington May 16 - 21, 2009:
> http://wiki.sagemath.org/days15/. So there will likely be many Sage
> developers at your Milliman lectures here May 19 - 21.
>
> -- William
>
>
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William Stein
Associate Professor of Mathematics
University of Washington
http://wstein.org