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Author is "Captain S/V Red Herring". I thought it strange that he would start by defining what a ring is, but I am not familiar with the intended audience.
by petters 8y ago
Author is "Captain S/V Red Herring". I thought it strange that he would start by defining what a ring is, but I am not familiar with the intended audience.
- MeteorMarc 8y agoMarko Rodriguez is one of the main authors of Apache TinkerPop [http://tinkerpop.apache.org/ http://tinkerpop.apache.org/]. This paper is the theoretical groundwork for future, more efficient implementations of the gremlin traversal machine, as appears from the last sentence of the paper: "In general, the algebra can be used to develop both languages and underlying execution systems that are functional, universal, and can be reasoned on algebraically."
- okram 8y agoI wrote the paper for technically savvy individuals who are not versed in abstract algebra. While writing the first 5 pages, I constantly asked myself: "Will my mom be able to follow what I'm saying?" Fortunately, after reading it, she said: "I get the general idea." At page 5, the stream ring is defined as a product of the coefficient ring and the function ring and from there, the notation gets heavy and there was little I could do. Hopefully by building confidence in the reader up to page 5, they would have the patience to forge ahead because the true nuggets of value are in the latter parts of the article. Finally, to the "Captain" comment -- this article was written while in the Sea of Cortez aboard the S/V Red Herring: http://svredherring.com http://svredherring.com and https://twitter.com/SV_RedHerring https://twitter.com/SV_RedHerring.
- graycat 8y agoI can't read the Web page: If I have Firefox magnify the page, then much of the text is off the screen and with no horizontal scroll bars to put it on the screen. Without magnification, I'd need a strong magnifying glass to read the page character by character. I studied abstract algebra, including groups, rings, fields, Galois theory, integral domains, vector spaces, modules, wrote my honors paper on group representations, etc. so would like to see what benefit ring theory has for software.