SAGE: Software for Algebra and Geometry Experimentation Major Points

SAGE is a project that the PI launched in January 2005 to create a software environment for research and experimentation in algebra, geometry, number theory, cryptography, and numerical computation. This involves the creation of free open source software and databases that support advanced mathematical research. The PI is one of the more sought-after people by the world-wide community of mathematicians, for computational confirmation of conjectures, for algorithms, for data, and for ways of formulating problems so as to make them more accessible to algorithms. He is also successful at bringing together a wide range of people to work on collaborative mathematics projects; for example, he organized the MSRI workshop [30], two NSF-funded SAGE Days workshops [10; 11], and will organize several more workshops during the next year [1; 31; 12; 2]. He has extensive experience with software development, having written HECKE, much of SAGE, and over 25,000 lines of code that are included in Magma.