Am Sonntag, den 19.12.2010, 09:36 -0500 schrieb Joshua Stults:
I like the name Maxima. The name is known and you can find a lot of
references to Maxima in books and on the web. With Google I can find
Maxima on the first page using entries like "Maxima",
"Computeralgebrasystem", or "CAS Maxima".
This week I have bought a German book from J. Ziegenbalg et. al.
"Algorithmen von Hammurapi bis G?del". This book not only shows nice
examples with Maxima, but also emphasize the advantages of Maxima:
"F?r das, was sie leisten, sind praktisch alle Computeralgebrasysteme
preiswert. Aber besonders angenehm ist nat?rlich der Umstand, dass es
darunter auch sehr leistungsf?hige kostenlose Open Source Systeme gibt -
wie z. B. das in diesem Buch verwendete System Maxima."
I try to translate:
"For what they do, virtually all computer algebra systems are
inexpensive. Of course, the fact is very comfortable that some of them
are very powerful and free open source systems, such as Maxima that is
used in this book. ..."
Dieter Kaiser