Hi everybody!
My new Maxima library (SARAG: Some Algorithms
in Real Algebraic Geometry) is now available
on line together with a TeXmacs book that uses it.
I will be updating the library in the next months.
Next year other people will be involved.
The editor (Springer) of the book is very
happy about this project and has allowed the authors
to release the book for free download.
The book and the Maxima library are found at
http://name.math.univ-rennes1.fr/marie-francoise.roy/bpr-posted1.html
I would be very happy if the library becomes
part of Maxima.
Please use it and report any bugs and suggestions.
Regards
Fabrizio
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 09:35:26 +0200
From: "Peters, Martin, Springer DE"
To: Fabrizio Caruso
Cc: "Peters, Martin, Springer DE"
Subject: RE: Maxima for interactive books
Hi Frabrizio,
Thanks for your comments! These help me; I'll contact the Maxima
developers to see whether there is potential in the future for
Maxima-related books -- not, necessarily, the handbook -- but ones like
Basu/Pollack/Roy or analogous to Greuel/Pfister related to SIMGULAR and
Eisenbud et al related to Macaulay.
With best regards,
Martin
-----Original Message-----
From: Fabrizio Caruso [mailto:fabrizio.caruso at math]
Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2005 6:45 PM
To: Peters, Martin, Springer DE
Subject: Maxima for interactive books
Hi!
I am the author of the Maxima library SARAG used in the interactive
book.
The reasons why we chose Maxima,
in order of importance, are:
(1) It is free and open source
(2) It is easy to use (but not the best system)
(3) It is a general purpose system with
a relatively large community of very motivated users and developers (I
had developed a small part of Maxima before my work on the book)
Note: I think Maxima is an update of a version of DOE-Macsyma. Maxima is
not an update of the (once) commercially available Macsyma.
Technically better (but more complicated for the user) free open source
systems are: Axiom and Mathemagix.
Mathemagix is still under developement and we might consider having a
version of the library and book that use Mathemagix.
Regards
Fabrizio Caruso