Interesting history! Were you by any chance at the computer algebra conference in New York City (at the Courant Institute I think) in 1984? I remember James giving a demo of Scratchpad there, and dreaming of one day being able to afford a computer which could run it...
John On 23/12/2007, root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >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 > > > > -- John Cremona --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
