Subject: Maxima by Example: Ch. 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11 posted
From: Dave Feustel
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 19:49:01 -0500
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 04:48:22PM -0700, Edwin Woollett wrote:
> The old chapter seven has been split into 7 plus 10 for ease of maintenance.
> However, all (7 - 11) have been updated with a fancy verbatim environment
> plus the latex color package to make the maxima code stand out better.
> (ch. 1 - 6 remain to be updated with this style.)
>
> New material is:
> ch. 8: numerical integration,
> ch. 9: bigfloats and arbitrary precision quadrature,
> ch. 11 fast fourier transforms
Have you thought about including a chapter on tensor calculus and
differential geometry with reference to General Relativity? Dr. Myron
Evans writes that he has used maxima to prove a fundamental error in
Einstein's General Relativity - namely that torsion cannot be zero when
curvature in non-zero. The calculations are available in the papers
section of his website, aias.us. The implications for general relativity
of non-zero torsion appear to be wide-ranging and Dr. Evans has been
writing a lot of papers investigating those implications.