Doing Math with Python at PyCon Education Seminar
Hey all, I spoke at the PyCon Australia Education Seminar. I really loved the energy of all the speakers. All the talks are here at: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLs4CJRBY5F1Jh6fFqT1p5TZRx5q06CcaR My talk is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJOt4QQgx0A with the slides and demos here at https://github.com/doingmathwithpython/pycon-au-2016 Best Wishes, Amit. -- http://echorand.me
Great talk Amit! You were great dealing with an overtaxed kernel under time pressure, and really moved through a lot of substantive material, not wasting any time at all. Here's a screen shot exhibit of me tweeting to followers about your talk just now, with a link both to Youtube and back to here, this edu-sig archives: https://flic.kr/p/Km1ZZ7 "Math is an endless source of things to program and programming in itself is a useful skill-building activity" is my soft sell. The hard sell being "programming opens more doors into mathematics than other media, and aids the imagination more directly". Especially true when we add such as Pi3D and VPython, along with ray tracing (e.g. POV-ray [1]) to graphical equation plotting, thereby getting into Mandelbulb territory (a kind of 3D Mandelbrot). The graphical and the lexical blend together. Python helps us make "math cartoons" (that's not the only thing it does, but I've found it helpful in getting me there). Also good job showing off MathJax rendering mathematics with beautiful typography, in a way many self-respecting mathematicians hope to see it. [2] Kirby [1] http://4dsolutions.net/ocn/numeracy0.html [2] http://jupyter-notebook.readthedocs.io/en/latest/examples/Notebook/Typesetti... On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 5:03 PM, Amit Saha <amitsaha.in@gmail.com> wrote:
Hey all,
I spoke at the PyCon Australia Education Seminar. I really loved the energy of all the speakers. All the talks are here at: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLs4CJRBY5F1Jh6fFqT1p5TZRx5q06CcaR
My talk is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJOt4QQgx0A with the slides and demos here at https://github.com/doingmathwithpython/pycon-au-2016
Best Wishes, Amit.
Hello Kirby, On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 4:33 AM, kirby urner <kirby.urner@gmail.com> wrote:
Great talk Amit!
You were great dealing with an overtaxed kernel under time pressure, and really moved through a lot of substantive material, not wasting any time at all.
Here's a screen shot exhibit of me tweeting to followers about your talk just now, with a link both to Youtube and back to here, this edu-sig archives:
Thank you! I think i have to start using Jupyter more so that I know how to make the best use of it or troubleshoot it when it hangs and even a kernel restart won;t help! But really love how it allows me to show the code and output together. I started using a custom.css file to increase the font size, so definitely improvement for me.
"Math is an endless source of things to program and programming in itself is a useful skill-building activity" is my soft sell.
The hard sell being "programming opens more doors into mathematics than other media, and aids the imagination more directly".
Especially true when we add such as Pi3D and VPython, along with ray tracing (e.g. POV-ray [1]) to graphical equation plotting, thereby getting into Mandelbulb territory (a kind of 3D Mandelbrot).
The graphical and the lexical blend together. Python helps us make "math cartoons" (that's not the only thing it does, but I've found it helpful in getting me there).
Also good job showing off MathJax rendering mathematics with beautiful typography, in a way many self-respecting mathematicians hope to see it. [2]
Indeed, you add very nice points! I discovered the typography and the ability to zoom in while I was working on this. Best Wishes, Amit.
Kirby
[1] http://4dsolutions.net/ocn/numeracy0.html
[2] http://jupyter-notebook.readthedocs.io/en/latest/examples/Notebook/Typesetti...
On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 5:03 PM, Amit Saha <amitsaha.in@gmail.com> wrote:
Hey all,
I spoke at the PyCon Australia Education Seminar. I really loved the energy of all the speakers. All the talks are here at: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLs4CJRBY5F1Jh6fFqT1p5TZRx5q06CcaR
My talk is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJOt4QQgx0A with the slides and demos here at https://github.com/doingmathwithpython/pycon-au-2016
Best Wishes, Amit.
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kirby urner