Hello!
Thanks for taking the time to answer.
Your idea sounds great, I'm certainly not opposed to it. My feeling was it
is a lot harder to evaluate the fundamental ideas behind a large body of
code than it is from a specialised resource, which is why I asked that
question.
This is not a homework problem, I'd like to write a CAS.
The link you provided mention a very valid point. However, despite risking
writing code that would die, my goal here is to learn. Do you think much can
be gained by beginning the study of this field on the code of a CAS such as
Maxima, or perhaps as somebody else mentionned, SAGE?
On 5/10/07, Harald Geyer <Harald.Geyer at gmx.at> wrote:
>
> Hi Hedos!
>
> > I'm interested about how one can build a simple symbolic mathematic
> systems
> > on a computer.
>
> Why don't you contribute to an existing CAS instead? That way you can
> learn the same or even more and you work actually has some value ...
>
> Is this some kind of home work example?
>
> > I thought I would ask on here, hopefully some of you can
> > point me to ressources or help me find out where to start. I'd just like
> to
> > learn how to build something basic, such as polynomial manipulation, to
> > begin.
>
> I think the best pointer I can give you is the following article:
> Note that it explicitely talks about polynomial manipulation ...
>
> http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/axiom-developer/2007-03/msg00211.html
>
>
> HTH,
> Harald
>
>