On 02/05/2013 11:47 AM, Ren? Grognard wrote:
> It might be of interert to Denis Darland and Stavros Macrakis that
> the January issue of the Notices of the American Mathematical Society
> has an article on
>
> Closed Forms: What They Are and Why We Care,
> by J. M. Borwein & R. E. Crandall
> (pp 50-65)
>
> It is freely available in pdf format at
>
> http://www.ams.org/notices/201301/rnoti-p50.pdf
>
Thanks for the reference, which is very interesting. Sadly, R. E.
Crandall died on late December; I was still hoping to convince him to
use Maxima (he was an active user o Mathematica).
Cheers,
Jaime