On 3/19/07, Alasdair McAndrew <amca01 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Does Maxima implement any general method of solving these? There are a few
> Newton's methods, but is that all? Is there a Brent's method in there
> somewhere, or a Broyden's method for systems, for example? Should I write
> some?
Aside from Newton's method, there are no other algorithms to solve
nonlinear or nonpolynomial systems of equations in Maxima
(so far as I know). If you or your students want to work on that,
that would be terrific. Maybe a workable place to start is the
Fortan code at Netlib. Fortran can be translated automatically
to Lisp via the f2cl program.
FWIW
Robert