[SciPy-Dev] Project Details for GSoC 2018

[Ralf Gommers]

On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 9:57 AM, Joshua Wilson <josh.craig.wilson at gmail.com>
wrote:

> A couple of comments: as Ralf mentioned on a recent thread, adding new
> top-level modules to SciPy is pretty much out of the question, so you
> probably want to focus on enhancing existing modules. Some of the
> operations you propose (checking continuity, checking analyticity) are
> not particularly useful for scientific computing (the nature of
> floating point means they won't be very reliable); they might be more
> appropriate for a symbolic library.


Indeed. My first thought after reading the proposal was that this could be
a good fit with Sympy. Sympy participates in GSoC as well, so you could try
with them.

Cheers,
Ralf



> Now, computing high-order
> derivatives of analytic functions is an interesting topic because it
> can be done to high precision using Cauchy's integral formula.
> Something like this might fit in `scipy.integrate`. The thing I'm not
> sure of is whether this is enough material for a GSoC; determining
> this would require looking through the relevant literature.
>
> On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 10:19 AM, GAGANDEEP SINGH <gdp.1807 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Dear developers,
> >
> > As suggested by Ralf Gommers, I am presenting my project idea details for
> > GSoC 2018 for contributing to SciPy.
> > I want to add a module to scipy which will allow to perform various
> > computations related to Complex Analysis.
> > You can see more details in the attached file.
> >
> > Waiting for feedbacks from mentors.
> >
> > With Regards,
> > Gagandeep Singh
> >
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