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diff --git a/academic/maxima/README b/academic/maxima/README index 35a04af3fa..d084e4cb04 100644 --- a/academic/maxima/README +++ b/academic/maxima/README @@ -1,7 +1,26 @@ -Maxima is a system for the manipulation of symbolic and numerical -expressions, including differentiation, integration, Taylor series, -Laplace transforms, ordinary differential equations, systems of linear -equations, polynomials, and sets, lists, vectors, matrices, and tensors. -Maxima yields high precision numeric results by using exact fractions, -arbitrary precision integers, and arbitrarily precision floating point -numbers. Maxima can plot functions and data in two and three dimensions. + +Maxima is a GPL computer algebra system based on DOE-MACSYMA. It +is comparable to commercial systems like Mathematica and Maple. It +emphasizes symbolic mathematical computation: algebra, trigonometry, +calculus, and much more. + +For example, Maxima solves x^2-r*x-s^2-r*s=0 giving the symbolic +results [x=r+s, x=-s]. + +Maxima can calculate with exact integers and fractions, native +floating-point and high-precision big floats. + +Maxima has user-friendly front-ends, an on-line manual, plotting +commands, and numerical libraries. Users can write programs in its +native programming language, and many have contributed useful packages +in a variety of areas over the decades. + +Maxima is GPL-licensed and largely written in Common Lisp. Executables +can be downloaded for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android; source code +is also available. An active community maintains and extends the +system. Maxima is widely used. + +SBo Installation notes: +- The info files are not compressed. +- Two .lisp files install to /usr/info. +These are required for maxima's help facility. |