SnapPea is free software designed to help mathematicians, in particular low-dimensional topologists, study hyperbolic 3-manifolds. The primary developer is Jeffrey Weeks, who created the first version[1] as part of his doctoral thesis,[2] supervised by William Thurston. It is not to be confused with the unrelated android malware with the same name.[3][4][5]
The latest version is 3.0d3. Marc Culler, Nathan Dunfield and collaborators have extended the SnapPea kernel and written Python extension modules which allow the kernel to be used in a Python program or in the interpreter. They also provide a graphical user interface written in Python which runs under most operating systems (see external links below).
The following people are credited in SnapPea 2.5.3's list of acknowledgments: Colin Adams, Bill Arveson, Pat Callahan, Joe Christy, Dave Gabai, Charlie Gunn, Martin Hildebrand, Craig Hodgson, Diane Hoffoss, A. C. Manoharan, Al Marden, Dick McGehee, Rob Meyerhoff, Lee Mosher, Walter Neumann, Carlo Petronio, Mark Phillips, Alan Reid, and Makoto Sakuma.
The C source code is extensively commented by Jeffrey Weeks and contains useful descriptions of the mathematics involved with references.
The SnapPeaKernel is released under GNU GPL 2+[6] as is SnapPy.[7]
- ^ Weeks, Jeffrey R., SnapPea C source code, (1999)
- ^ Weeks, Jeffrey R., Convex hulls and isometries of cusped hyperbolic $3$-manifolds. Topology Appl. 52 (1993), no. 2, 127—149.
- ^ Fox-Brewster, Thomas. "Android 'Gooligan' Hackers Just Scored The Biggest Ever Theft Of Google Accounts". forbes.com. Retrieved 21 May 2017.
- ^ "Adware or APT – SnapPea Downloader - An Android Malware that implements 12 different exploits". Check Point Blog. 10 July 2015. Retrieved 21 May 2017.
- ^ "How to Manage Your Android Device from Windows with SnapPea". howtogeek.com. 4 February 2013. Retrieved 21 May 2017.
- ^ ReadMe file for the SnapPea kernel, accessed 2013-09-06.
- ^ "SnapPy — SnapPy 2.1 documentation". Math.uic.edu. Retrieved 2014-03-12.