I glanced at it too, it looks very good. There is a fairly prominent
typo in one section heading ("through Through").
I have not actually used Maxima yet, but I'm quite hopeful. I have been
using Mathematica for its pattern-matching and replacement functions, but
would love to switch to Maxima; two things that would be neat to have in
the manual are a section on pattern-matching (this didn't jump out at me
in skimming, but I could easily have missed it) and some discussions of
translation from Maple/Mathematica to Maxima for those who would like to
convert ...
thanks very much for all your work,
Ben Bolker
On 18 Jan 2002, Raymond Toy wrote:
> >>>>> "CY" == C Y <smustudent1@yahoo.com> writes:
>
> CY> current state of affairs, I've put another pdf up at
> CY> http://maxima.sourceforge.net/maximabook.pdf. Again, this is extremely
>
> This looks quite nice. I skimmed over various sections and have the
> following comments:
>
> o You give an example of setting HALFANGLES and give an example of
> sin(x/2) => sqrt(1-cos(x))/2. Of course, this is wrong if x is
> negative. Should you mention that?
>
> o In the integration examples, I think it would be nice if you showed
> where maxima would ask questions rather than just using assume to
> suppress them.
>
> o I only skimmed the bibliography. It seems to have lots of stuff
> that, based on the title, aren't relevant to maxima?
>
> Ray
>
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