Gail's code is not available, as far as she knows. She told me that
MIT has the rights to it.
Richard Fateman wrote:
> I assume Gail's code can be found, as can Gail, who last I knew
> lived in the Boston/Cambridge Massachusetts area and worked for
> a software company writing for Macintosh computers.
>
> On the other hand, if you wish to write a new GB package based
> on the best alternative today, I think you could do so. Another
> possibility is to write an interface program that takes a macsyma
> problem statement and transfers the notation to some one of
> the other programs (and back). I think that Bill Schelter's
> xmaxima interfaced with one of the systems you mention.
>
> RJF
>
> Daniel Martins wrote:
> > Some time ago appeared a comment (Dan Stanger) about
> > Groebner bases implementation and Prof Fateman replied that someone
> > called Gail Zacharias have done this job but it seems to be lost.
> >
> > Well, I fell that Groebner bases are a quite important topic to a
> > CAS. So, if the code was really lost I would as k about adding some
> > code from other open source CAS. One that fits best seems to be
> > macaulay2 described below. Other possibilities are CoCoa
> > (ftp://cocoa.dima.unige.it/cocoa/index.html) and Singular
> > (http://www.singular.uni-kl.de/) which is also GPL.
> >
> > I really do not know about the difficulties this task would require
> > but I feel that sooner or later we will need to face it.
> >
> >
> > * Package name : macaulay2
> > Version : 0.9.2
> > Upstream Author : Daniel Grayson <dan@math.uiuc.edu>,
> > Michael Stillman <mike@math.cornell.edu>
> > * URL : http://www.math.uiuc.edu/Macaulay2/
> > * License : GPL
> > Description : Computer commutative algebra system
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >>********************************************
> >>Dan Stanger dan.stanger@ieee.org
> >>Sat, 24 Nov 2001 15:43:34 -0700
> >>
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> >>Is anyone working on a groebner code in maxima, or does anyone know
> >>if the code written by Gail Zacharias which was contributed to the
> >>commercial code is available?
> >>
> >>
> >>******************************************************
> >>
> >>Richard Fateman fateman@cs.berkeley.edu
> >>Sun, 25 Nov 2001 17:03:18 -0800
> >>
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> >>I think at least one version of Gail's code was written for the
> >>pre-1982 macsyma.
> >>
> >>Has it been lost?
> >>
> >>For some reason your message with subject "Linstedt" is not coming
> >>through my mail reader. So far as I know there were a few papers on
> >>this topic but it is rather difficult to fully automate. (almost any
> >>asymptotic methods tend to require a steady hand on the tiller...)
> >>RJF
> >>
> >
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