USE OF MAXIMA AND XMAXIMA IN PATRAS, GREECE

Hi,

 If you need some information immediately on getting started with Maxima,
you should certainly look at "intromax.html" which is in the "doc"
subdirectory of the (old) Maxima 5.5 windows distribution.  It contains a
nice set of "useful" examples, and it helped me get started with Maxima.

 Hope this helps.

 Dave Holmgren

 With regards to Maxima, I find that one of the most important things
> lacking in Maxima is simple documentation on how to use formulas and
> such, from the user's perspective. I feel that if you can produce that
> using the teacher's pespective, with all the problems that will come up
> in the classroom, then Maxima and the community will benefit greatly.
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> Em Sáb, 2002-09-07 às 05:10, Nikolaos I. Ioakimidis escreveu:
> > Dear Colleagues,
> >
> > My name is Nikolaos I. Ioakimidis and I work at the School of
> > Engineering of the University of Patras, Greece. My e-mail
> > address is
> >
> > ioakimidis@otenet.gr
> >
> > My postal work address is
> >
> > Nikolaos I. Ioakimidis
> > Department of Engineering Sciences
> > School of Engineering
> > University of Patras
> > GR-265.04  Rion, Patras
> > G R E E C E
> >
> > Very recently, I have "discovered" Maxima and I plan to officially
> > use it in my courses (simultaneously with Mathematica) during
> > the present Academic year to begin soon. The advantages of
> > Maxima are (i) its well-known power, (ii) the availability of the
>
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