Yigal Weinstein wrote:
> I am very interested in using a CAS to work on solving complicated
> exactly solvable quantum mechanics problems - if possible relating to
> few body scattering. I am unsure if Maxima is a reasonable way to
> proceed. That is, is there any way to compare Maxima's abilities with
> Maple's, or Mathematica's - for that matter Axiom's? The comparisons
> I have viewed are extremely dated, 1990 - especially with the growth
> of this type of software. I don't want, if possible, to use Maxima
> only to find that it has serious limitations compared to these other CAS.
I don't think anyone can say for sure if there are serious limitations
without knowing what capabilities you need. If you could try to state
the facilities required, that would help.
In general though, most computations done in system A can be done in
system B and vice versa, perhaps faster or slower.
RJF