Macsyma vs. Maxima, book



--- "Nikolaos I. Ioakimidis" <ioakimidis@otenet.gr> wrote:

> Therefore, my own conclusion as a novice in Maxima
> (and a recommendation to Milan) is to study The Maxima
> Book to the extent this is available (I hope it will be ready
> soon) and for the moment (meanwhile) study also (if possible)
> Macsyma User's Guide of the commercial Macsyma, which
> is sufficiently well written in spite of few errors and restrictions
> to the major commands. (I have the 1988 version.) Next, there
> are the classical Maxima Reference Manuals, but they require
> some more experience.

Unfortunately progress on the Maxima Book is not rapid.
 
> The Maxima Book already contains much valuable information.
> Perhaps, you may wish to ask for a PDF copy from Cliff.

I can provide one, provided you can accept a roughly 2 meg email
attachment.

Cliff

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