>Me too. I've been struck by the fact that most of the people that >I've talked to about Sage, including graduate students (in other >fields), are most interested in the calculus kind of stuff.
Axiom implements the Risch Algorithm for elementary functions. If it returns the answer as an unevaluated integral that is a proof that there exists no integral that can be expressed in elementary terms. In addition, Axiom implements many of the extended cases of the algorithm for non-elementary functions. >I was tired of no one else doing any thing about that, and had two >people tell me just a week ago that they'd probably use Sage if it >had symbolic matrices. Axiom implements symbolic matrices. >Probably 2d and 3d visualization are also at least as important as >calculus to the target audience we are talking about. Linear algebra >and numerical solving is also extremely important... (thanks mike and >robertwb for implementing symbolic matrices for 2.9.1!!!!) In the Axiom tree distribution is a function called viewalone. It is a standalone C program that implements 2D and 3D graphs with many features including shading, scaling, rotation, and printing the results as postscript files. The program can also be called from within Axiom. To try the viewalone program look for directories with the extension .view Invoke viewalone on the directory and you should see a live graph that you can manipulate. This could easily be packaged separately from Axiom as a standalone part of Sage. Tim --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
