New user: where to start?



On 21/02/2008, George Leeman <george.leeman at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Hi Dotan,
>    Based on what I have seen, Adam Majewski's suggested URL
>  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Maxima is an excellent place to start.

Are you referring to the links at the bottom? There are a lot of
useful information there, and I would not have thought to go to
wikipedia for tutorial links. Thanks.

>  Another manual which I have found useful is at
>  http://www.math.psu.edu/glasner/Max_doc/macref.pdf, and there is also an
>  online reference manual at
>  http://www.delorie.com/gnu/docs/maxima/maxima_toc.html.
>    I and perhaps many others like to learn by example.  A nice feature in
>  Maxima is 'example'.  If you say 'example(matrices);', you will get several
>  examples to show how matrices are manipulated.  Saying just 'example();'
>  tells you what keywords the example function allows.
>  George Leeman
>

Thanks, George.

Dotan Cohen

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