[Numpy-discussion] Characteristic of a Matrix.

[Alexander Belopolsky]

On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 8:20 PM, Nathaniel Smith <njs at pobox.com> wrote:

> > Since matrices are now part of some high school curricula, I urge that
> they
> > be treated appropriately in Numpy.  Further, I suggest that
> consideration be
> > given to establishing V and VT sub-classes, to cover vectors and
> transposed
> > vectors.
>
> The numpy devs don't really have the interest or the skills to create
> a great library for pedagogical use in high schools. If you're
> interested in an interface like this, then I'd suggest creating a new
> package focused specifically on that (which might use numpy
> internally). There's really no advantage in glomming this into numpy
> proper.


Sorry for taking this further off-topic, but I recently discovered an
excellent SAGE package, <http://www.sagemath.org/>.  While it's targeted
audience includes math graduate students and research mathematicians, parts
of it are accessible to schoolchildren.  SAGE is written in Python and
integrates a number of packages including numpy.

I would highly recommend to anyone interested in using Python for education
to take a look at SAGE.
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