Hi - I think that something like PDease would make a great educational tool.
I did once use FlexPDE (very similar program) for this purpose in a 4th year
mathematical physics course a couple of years ago. Anyway, I wouldn't doubt
the educational value of PDease. At one point, I had a demo version that
had a nice "notebook" window interface (complete with simulated coil
binding!), in which the complete problem was set out much as you would write
it down in a lecture. This was rather nice for animations of eigenfunctions
(eg., Schrodinger equation). Also, I suspect that programs like PDease can
be useful for taking an initial stab at a problem, even those of the more
serious variety.
Dave Holmgren
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Fateman [SMTP:fateman at cs]
> Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 6:14 PM
> To: C Y
> Cc: reuter; maxima@www.ma.utexas.edu
> Subject: Re: [Maxima] PDease
>
> Is there an enthusiastic audience for PDEase?
> My impression was that this would be suitable for
> educational use, but not serious engineering
> computations. My guess is that it probably did not
> contribute to Macsyma Inc's revenues.
>
> Unless I was using it wrong, it was an entirely
> separate program running in an MS-DOS low resolution
> window.
> RJF
>
>
> C Y wrote:
>
> > --- reuter <reuter@portsite.de> wrote:
> >
> >>Hello,
> >>
> >>is there anybody who knows something about PDease. Is it available
> >>under
> >>GPL ?
> >>
> >
> > Don't we wish. It is not part of Maxima - PDease was put out by
> > Macsyma Inc. as a commerical product. I'm not sure if it vanished with
> > the commerical Macsyma or not.
> >
>
>
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