[NBLUG/talk] Appropriate subject matter for talks

Roger House rhouse at sonic.net
Fri Apr 26 14:20:22 PDT 2013


Take a look at Sage (www.sagemath.org), an open source replacement for 
Mathematica, Matlab, and similar math packages.  Sage is extremely 
powerful.  The glue language is Python.

Roger House

On 04/26/2013 01:37 PM, Steve S. wrote:
> q.v. "Mathematica" software package.  From Wikipedia:
>
> "Mathematica is proprietary software restricted by both copyright law
> and trade secret.
>
> A regular single-user license for Mathematica used in a commercial
> environment costs $2495 although new customers can purchase the
> "Starter Edition" for $995. They include eight additional kernels for
> parallel computations and one year of service that includes updates,
> technical support, a home use license, a webMathematica Amateur
> license,[48] a Wolfram Workbench license and three Mathematica Player
> Pro licenses. Discounts are available for government, charity,
> educational, pre-college, school, student, home use[49] and retiree
> use and depend on geographical region. Student licenses cost $140. A
> general "home use" license ("Mathematica Home Edition") is also
> available to the public and is priced at $295. Educational site
> licenses allow use by students at home. A license manager similar to
> FLEXnet is available to provide sharing of licenses within a group."
>
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 11:56 AM, Zack Gold <zack at nblug.org> wrote:
>> Mathematics can be proprietary!?
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 12:19 PM, jezra <jezra at jezra.net> wrote:
>>> Hi Glenn,
>>> When determining if a presentation is appropriate, it is important to
>>> see how well the topic fits withing Article 2 of the NBLUG
>>> Constitution http://nblug.org/constitution which delineates the purpose
>>> of NBLUG. While a presentation of mathematics by itself may not fit
>>> within the guidelines, a discussion of Open Source mathematics software
>>> certainly would.
>>>
>>> jezra
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 20:01:02 -0700
>>> Glenn Kerbein <glenn at spontaneousdancing.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello NBLUGers,
>>>>
>>>> I am throwing around an idea in my head. I'm far from solidifying it
>>>> and putting it on paper.
>>>>
>>>> I was thinking about giving a discussion on mathematics -
>>>> specifically the derivative and it's real-world applications.
>>>>
>>>> Is this appropriate for NBLUG?
>>>>
>>>> Best,
>>>> Glenn
>>>>
>>>
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>> Zack Gold
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