On 2012-07-10, Raymond Toy <toy.raymond at gmail.com> wrote:
> Is it really right that maxima just does pattern matching? Or are you
> saying "looking for patterns" in a more general sense?
Well, simplification is pattern matching, which is a large and
mathematically important part of Maxima. Sure, there's more to say, but
I didn't want to go into details ... there's only so much time in a day.
<shrug>
best
Robert Dodier