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Luc Maisonobe commented on MATH-250:
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You can start by looking at what is already in and say what you like and
dislike.
I intend to do drastic changes in order to support reverse mode too, so this
needs some thoughts.
The best place to speak about this is the commons developers list (don't forget
to put [nabla] in the subject).
Do you still think this issue should remain open ?
> Solver for rational and other equations
> ---------------------------------------
>
> Key: MATH-250
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MATH-250
> Project: Commons Math
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Affects Versions: 2.0
> Reporter: Bernhard Grünewaldt
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: 2.0
>
>
> In addition to the existing PolynomialFunction class a RationalFunction class
> would be a good idea.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational_function
> For package:
> http://commons.apache.org/math/userguide/analysis.html
> The goal should be to calculate derivates of functions like:
> f(x) = [ x + 2*x^3 ] / [ x -1]
> or
> f(x) = [ e^x + 2*x ] / [ cos(x) ]
> Therefore it would be best to have classes for all the inner equations like
> "e", "sin,cos,tan ...", "sqrt", a.s.o
> These inner equations would then be put together to an outer equation.
> This outer equation can then be derived using the "chain rule", "product
> rule" and all other rules for getting the derivative.
> One of this inner classes is the existing PolynomialFunction class from the
> analysis package.
> For easy rational functions the outer equation is of the form:
> f(x) = PolynomialFunction / PolynomialFunction
> Now just use the rule to derive it:
> f(x) = g(x) / h(x) => f'(x) = [h(x) * g'(x) - g(x) * h'(x) ] / [ h(x) ]^2
> Here we can use the inner derivate of the PolynomialFunction by calling
> PolynomialFunction.derivative()
> That's the idea, now the topics that have to be discussed:
> 1. We should have a parser that can parse the "standard mathematical
> notation" into a tree of function classes.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_notation
> 2. A class for every type of function should be implemented with an interface
> that has the common methods like:
> add(Object o)
> subtract(Object o)
> multiply(Object o)
> divide(Object o)
> derivative(Object o)
> a.s.o
> 3. We need to implement Excptions that are thrown for sqrt(-1) a.s.o
> 4. We need a mother class that implements all the complex derivation rules
> like:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain_rule
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product_rule
> a.s.o.
> the sub classes the PolynomialFunction or the RationalFunction just
> implement their derivation rules, but the mother class implements the complex
> rules to derivate a complex structure of any type of equation by using the
> inner derivation rules and the complex chain rules a.s.o
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