[sage-devel] presentation about Maxima at Sage developer days

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ondrej.certik at gmail.com 
> 
> So it seems P. Wang did integrals as his phd thesis and limits only as
> a side effect. :)

Limits is a prerequisite to definite integration.  He had to have limit
calculations BEFORE completing definite integration.

He wrote up the limit program separately. As it happens, the fastest way to
do many limits in Maxima is to use an entirely different program, tlimit,
which uses Taylor series.  This is not always applicable.

I suspect that Gruntz' algorithm can be written in the Maxima language
fairly directly. Maybe using the Maple code as a model.
Then a lisp version can be obtained by translating that with the translate()
command.

RJF