On 12/18/08, Rene Grothmann <2008 at rene-grothmann.de> wrote:
> I am trying to make some student functions for differentiation,
> such as gradient, Jordan matrix, Hesse matrix.
Hmm, some or all of these are already defined in some add-on package, I think.
> 3) Is there any difference between a vector [x,y] and a 1x2-matrix?
At present Maxima doesn't have a vector type (distinct from list and matrix).
But this is a topic of active interest at present, so we might have
such a thing in the near future (2009).
best
Robert Dodier