Subject: Seeking areas of little or weak documentation
From: Raymond Toy
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 17:14:51 -0400
On 3/21/11 4:21 PM, Michel Talon wrote:
> Sol Lederman wrote:
>
>> Henry and Richard,
>>
>> Thank you for taking the time to respond so thoroughly to my post.
>>
>> I see a common thread in your responses -- that there are areas of Maxima
>> where information is not well organized/catalogued.
>>
> One of the areas which would benefit from a better documentation is the part
> 36, Rules and patterns. This is a difficult subject, and frequently
> questions about it appear in this forum. By collecting all this information,
> and playing with the program, perhaps one could enhance this documentation.
> This is a set of features which work very well in Mathematica and are very
> well documented in the Mathematica book. This perhaps could help as example.
> Robert Dodier is the expert on these features, he certainly could also help.
>
> In another department, R. Toy has recently added lbfgs to the share
> directory. I suppose this is related to
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BFGS_method
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L-BFGS
> but there is zero documentation. this would be a target for experimentation
> and documentation on a limited domain.
While, I'd love to take credit for that, that was actually done by
Robert Dodier. And it is documented. "? lbfgs" gives enough
information to figure out how to use it.
Ray