R: symbolic in C, was: Why do you prefer to work with Maxima?
Subject: R: symbolic in C, was: Why do you prefer to work with Maxima?
From: Richard Fateman
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 16:04:17 -0800
On 11/27/2012 3:53 PM, Antonio Lapira wrote:
>> Feel free to clarify what you actually want.
> Just curiosity to read source code, I can read/write C code, but I don't know anything about lisp
Since any reasonable C program to do symbolic computation would start by
implementing Lisp
(Greenspun's 10th law), you would do much better to learn Lisp in the
first place. A good book
to start -- in fact it has chapters on computer algebra, simplification,
and symbolic integration,
is Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming by Peter Norvig.
RJF