Maple and Mathematica A Problem Solving Approach for Mathematics
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Dr. Inna Shingareva Department of Mathematics, University of Sonora, Sonora, Mexico Dr. Carlos Lizárraga-Celaya Department of Physics, University of Sonora, Sonora, Mexico
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Preface
It is well known that computer algebra systems have revolutionized teaching and the learning processes in mathematics, science, and engineering, allowing students to computationally investigate complicated problems to find exact or approximate analytic solutions, numeric solutions, and illustrative two- and three-dimensional graphics. Since the 1960s there has existed individual packages for solving specific analytic, numerical, graphical and other problems. The need to solve all those problems with the aid of a single system, has led to the idea of construction of a modern general purpose computer algebra system. The first two papers describing analytic calculations realized on a computer were published in 1953 [7]. In the early 1970s, systems of analytic computations (SAC), or computer algebra systems (CAS), began to appear. Computer algebra systems are computational interactive programs that facilitate symbolic mathematics and can handle other type of problems. The first popular systems were Reduce, Derive, and Macsyma, which are still commercially available. Macsyma was one of the first and most mature systems. It was developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), but practically its evolution has stopped since the summer of 1999. A free software version of Macsyma, Maxima, is actively being maintained. To the present day, there have been developed more than a hundred computer algebra systems [7], [18]. Among these we can find Axiom, Der
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