Axiom Developers; After being inspired by the Sage code for their interface to Maxima, I (finally!) got around to implementing a simple interface for Maxima on Axiom Wiki and the Axiom Portal. See:
http://wiki.axiom-developer.org/SandBoxMaxima This is just a first attempt. Please give it a try. Create a few more new SandBox test pages, etc. I would like to do better but I need some help from knowledgeable Maxima people about how to better handle the input and output. Your comments and questions would be greatly appreciated. BTW, with the help of William Stein (the primary developer of Sage) I am also working on a similar interface between MathAction and Sage. So you will soon also be able to run Sage sessions via: \begin{sage} ... \end{sage} http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage This will provide access to several more open source mathematics packages including GAP, Maxima, Singular, PARI, MWRANK, NTL and others. Unlike MathAction (which merely provides a collaborative web-based user interface), Sage also allows you to exchange many computer algebra data structures (e.g. polynomials) between these packages. Currently Sage is running on the axiom-developer.org server but we still have some problems with clisp and Maxima. clisp refuses to run on this server - always returning an "out of memory error" no matter what I try. William Stein explained how to install Sage with Maxima built with GCL - which works fine on this server, however there are now a few interface problems between Sage and Maxima that may be due to the different lisp platform. I expect we (William at least :) can resolve this fairly easily. Stay tuned. Regards, Bill Page. _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
