Much awaited results of Google Summer Of Code 2015 are finally out. My project Improving series package and limits in SymPy has been selected! I will be working with SymPy under Python Software Foundation.
A little about GSoC
Google Summer of Code is a global program that offers students stipends to write code for open source projects.
SymPy
SymPy is a Python library for symbolic mathematics. It aims to become a full-featured Computer Algebra System (CAS) while keeping the code as simple as possible in order to be comprehensible and easily extensible.
My Project
My Project will be mentored by Jim Crist, Sean Vig and Ondřej Čertík.
The project aims at improving the series infrastructure and limits in SymPy. Sympy currently lacks a proper structure for handling and manipulating series. I plan to give the series package a concrete structure for future development and improvement. I plan to do the following over the summer.
- Sequence classes for defining sequences of coefficients.
- Classes to represent series in general.
- Implement Formal Power Series, using the above implemented structure.
- Computing limits of sequences.
My proposal lives here
Looking forward to a great summer!