numerical solutions to differential equations

>>>>> "richard" == richard noel fell <fell at brandeis.edu> writes:

    richard> Pardon this question which I should be able to find the answer to but 
    richard> have failed. What, if any, routines does maxima have for the numerical 
    richard> solutions of differential equations?

    richard> Macsyma has runge_kutta, ode_numsol and some others but I can similar 
    richard> ones in maxima.

Maxima has rk, a 4th order Runge-Kutta method.  describe("rk") to get
more info.

It should be possible to add other ODE integrators, like lsode and
friends.

Ray