"Page, Bill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...]
| Gaby would like to introduce his students to "symbolic
| computation", but really Axiom (and Aldor) are not very
| good at this -- by design.
The appearance of AXIOM in the scientific market moves symbolic
computations into a higher plane, where scientists can formulate
their statements in their own language and receive computer
assistance in their proofs. [...] AXIOM provides a powerful
scientific environment for easy construction of mathematical tools
and algorithms; it is a symbolic manipulation system, and a high
performance numerical system, with full graphic capabilities.
-- Gregory V. Chudnovsky in the Foreword of
AXIOM, the Scientific Computation System
I suspect the authors of the book forgot to tell him that the
designers of AXIOM, by design, really did make it "not very good at
symbolic computation".
-- Gaby
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