Timeline for Computational algebra: where?
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| Jul 8, 2022 at 13:49 | history | edited | Martin Sleziak | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
http -> https (the question was bumped anyway)
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| Feb 6, 2011 at 15:51 | comment | added | Chris Godsil | First, having a special interest is a distinct plus in graduate school (as long as you do not get too "narrow minded"). Second, a list of the places that are producing good software is not necessarily a list of the places where you'll find good supervisors who are leaders in the area of computational algebra. Look at where the graduates are going. | |
| Nov 12, 2010 at 20:16 | comment | added | Mikael Vejdemo-Johansson | Don't forget Kaiserslautern and Singular. | |
| Nov 12, 2010 at 16:22 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by S. Carnahan♦ | ||
| Nov 12, 2010 at 12:21 | comment | added | Alex B. | I purposefully didn't discuss the reasons for the disregard the area sometimes receives, to keep the answer objective. But since you are speculating on this, here is my 2 pence: one could say that the ultimate aim of mathematics is to enhance our understanding of the (mathematical) world around us. I guess that some people don't feel that writing algorithms directly contributes to this aim. While even that point of view is not easy to defend, it is unquestionable that computation is often very helpful in formulating conjectures, so is an important step on the way to theoretical understanding. | |
| Nov 12, 2010 at 12:11 | comment | added | uuu | Thank you for this helpful answer. I definitely understand your advice to choose a generally strong department. I was hoping there is a strong department which also has people in comp. algebra. I will check the departments in Sydney, Bordeaux and Washington to try to understand if they qualify by these criteria. I guess this field suffers reputation-wise because it's somewhere on the border of comp. sci and mathematics as they're defined today. | |
| Nov 12, 2010 at 11:51 | history | edited | Alex B. | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
Included Sage in the list; added 20 characters in body; deleted 1 characters in body; added 12 characters in body; edited body
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| Nov 12, 2010 at 11:47 | comment | added | Suvrit | Might I add: William Stein's group at UW? | |
| Nov 12, 2010 at 11:45 | history | answered | Alex B. | CC BY-SA 2.5 |