barton,
> Another thing: The "Poor Man's Integrator"
>
> http://www-sop.inria.fr/cafe/Manuel.Bronstein/pmint/index.html
>
> looks interesting, but I don't know anything about the algorithm.
> Maybe somebody might like to translate the 95 line Maple program to
> Maxima.
i read through it and at first glance it doesn't appear to involve
anything that is impossible in maxima, and it seems like an
interesting & useful algorithm, so i am inclined to try to translate it.
if it seems advisable, i'll contact Bronstein about licensing this
implementation
(http://www-sop.inria.fr/cafe/Manuel.Bronstein/pmint/pmint.txt)
under GPL.
robert