On Nov 23, 2008, at 2:00 AM, mabshoff wrote: > > It is my understand that it cannot compete with MMA or Maple there and > various people have claimed that Maxima's integration code is better > than the code in Axiom. I do not know if that is true. Anyway, in the > next Maxima release there will be a lot of improvements to Maxima's > integration code by Dieter Kaiser who seems to be working a lot in > that area. In the very end I cannot see any alternative that we write > our own code (since Axiom as well as Maxima can only be used via > pexpect), but that is certainly a long and thorny path.
I know that Axiom has a fairly comprehensive test suite for integration which is certainly attractive. However, I certainly agree that writing our own code is probably the most likely course in the long run. So, that means either using and improving the sympy code or writing all new code. I think that writing new code is probably the best course since that way it fits best with pynac. Unfortunately, I know little about symbolic integration techniques. Does anybody have suggestions for references? Given that I'm at the university that developed Maple, I probably can get any relevant books/papers. Cheers, Tim. --- Tim Lahey PhD Candidate, Systems Design Engineering University of Waterloo --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@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-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
