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Maxima installed on Athena
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Wed Mar 27 17:50:07 2002
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Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 17:49:54 -0500
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
I've installed Maxima on Athena for Sun and Linux machines. Maxima is
a version of the MIT-developed MACSYMA symbolic algebra system,
modified to run under GNU Common Lisp. Written in LISP, it allows
differentiation, integration, solution of linear or polynomial
equations, factoring of polynomials, expansion of functions in Laurent
or Taylor series, computation of Poisson series, matrix and tensor
manipulations, and two- and three-dimensional graphics.
To run it:
add maxima
maxima
type:
quit();
to exit. The GUI iterface, accessible by running "xmaxima", has been removed,
because it contains at least one critical bug that has not yet been fixed
(in distribution sources we have access to).
html documentation starts from http://web.mit.edu/maxima_v5.6.0/www/intro.html
In using maxima 2d and 3d graphics, a popup tool menu can be made to
appear by moving the mouse cursor to the upper left corner of a
graphics window. To run the various commands you need to select
them with "shift-left mouse button".
maxima can be invoked from within TexMacs, in the texmacs locker; this
will nicely render formulas in mathematical notation; to do this,
start TexMacs:
add texmacs
texmacs
And invoke it via Insert -> session -> maxima
Alex
