[juneau-lug] Maxima

Is Macsyma still available?  I thought that they had gone to join the 
dinosaurs and the dodo.

Maxima is the GPL'ed version of the old DOE Macsyma.  Prof. Schelter of 
U. Texas kept it alive for many years, and finally hounded the 
bureaucrats into giving him permission to release it under the GPL.  In 
its day, it was miles ahead of latecomers like Mathematica.  It's again 
being actively developed now, by some excellent mathematicians, computer 
scientists and lisp hackers, and is improving rapidly.

I got started using it when I had to do some symbolic math, and found 
that Mathematica and Maple choked up, but Maxima did the job.

Nels



Juan Rivero wrote:
> On Thursday 14 August 2003 20:23, Nels Tomlinson wrote:
> 
>>Hi, James,
>>
>>1) Social meetings are good.  So are presentations.  I'd be happy to
>>introduce either the R programming language (cran.r-project.org) or the
>>Maxima computer algebra project (maxima.sourceforge.net), at the next
>>meeting I can make.  Either intro could probably run 15 to 30 minutes.
>>
>>Juan Rivero might be interested in either.  Are you reading, Juan?
>>We've missed you at the meetings.
>>
> 
> 
> Yes -- just got back. Maxsyma (not Maxima) is interesting -- some of my
> friends use it. I won't be sure of my schedule until after classes start.
> 
> Juan
> --


------------------------------------
This is the Juneau-LUG mailing list.
To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to juneau-lug-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the 
word unsubscribe in the subject header.

Other related posts: