John Ogilvie escribi?:
> I was preparing to make a presentation to a Dean of Science about
> improving the effectiveness of teaching mathematics to students of science
> and engineering, for whom mathematics is a tool not a career; I sought to
> demonstrate that for this purpose one does not have to spend big money --
> and especially in 'developing' countries 'big' money is involved -- but
> one can employ Maxima as a viable alternative to expensive software such
> as Maple, Mathematica and MuPAD.
Thanks for advertising Maxima as an alternative teaching tool.
> However, when that simple plot of
> the definite integral of %e^(-x^2) (without the integration constant)
> failed, and especially when that barbarism and solecism of 'loose' for
> 'lose' appeared on trying to "quit from windows", I was too ashamed of
> maxima to include it in my presentation.
> It is disgraceful, anti-intellectual and anti-academic of Robert
> Dodier to tolerate such gross deficiencies. How can somebody with such
> a mentality justify his presence in an institution of so called higher
> education and learning? The end does not jusfify the means.
> J. F. Ogilvie
>
I wrote part of Maxima's documentation. And it was hard for me to write
in a foreign language. I'm sure lots of things could be written in a
better English style.
If you are interested, I can send you the files I wrote and you can help
me to improve the Maxima manual. This is how free software works: if you
don't like something, you are welcome to contribute.
Thanks for your future collaborations.
Politely yours,
--
Mario Rodriguez Riotorto
www.biomates.net