Dear all,
A collegue of mine and I are using Maxima
at the University of Pisa as a tool
for teaching.
He is using it in preparatory course
for math teachers.
This is very good because there are
lots of future math teachers who might
use Maxima in the future!
Moreover we get bug reports from them,
one of which is very serious:
solve([a=b,b=3],[a]).
I am using it in a course of cryptography.
More specifically I am following some
students who are implementing some
cryprograhic algorithms in Maxima.
As a spin-off of this, one very talented
student is going to optimize the "gf" package
on finite fields, which hopefully will
be included in the next Maxima release.
Fabrizio