Diff for "WilliamStein"

William Stein

http://sage.math.washington.edu

Working On

Getting SAGE-1.5 released.

1. New PolynomialRing constructor code

   • Get rid of the R.< > = PolynomialRing ... notation (fix lots of doctests)

2. Get rid of mutability for parent structures.
3. Make all (most) parent structures unique.
4. Matrices - implement all the classes using the new carefully *designed* structure.
5. (for matrices) -- the coverage is bad (write way more doctests).

Mostly David H:

1. extend what I've been working on to ModuleElement, including _sub_ and _neg_

2. then do _mul_, with fast pathways for both algebra and ring multiplication
3. use polynomials as a testbed, i.e. give them proper scalar multiplication semantics
4. after lots of discussion, a fairly hefty rewrite of the coercion module, both to clarify exactly what's supposed to happen, and also to aim for greater efficiency

Programming

• Modular forms
• Optimization of exact linear algebra
• Modular abelian varieties
• p-adic Modular Forms
• p-adic L-functions
• Quaternion algebra arithmetic

Non-programming

• Fund raising
• Documentation
• Organizing workshops