>It is possible that James Davenport, who spoke at Sage Days 6, might >wish to get in volced with a projtec to re-implement Risch's >algorithm. James's PhD was on this, around 1980, published in >Springer LNCS I seem to remember. He also worked on Scratchpad years >ago, when it developed by Jenks et al at IBM Yorktown Heights -- and >am I right in thinking that Axiom evolved from Scratchpad?
James is astonishingly good at computational mathematics. I was one of the project members at IBM Research. James did some of the work, as did Barry Trager and Manual Bronstein. The project went by the name Scratchpad/Scratchpad II and became Axiom when it was sold to NAG. Axiom was sold for years as a commercial competitor to Mathematica and Maple. NAG released the code to me under the BSD license. I've been the lead developer on the Axiom project which is the open source version of the system (http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/axiom). The Axiom Tutorial book (ISBN 1-4116-6597-X) lists approximately 170 people who contributed to Axiom so far. Tim --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
