A Review of Macsyma

Network Working Group Using Mit-mathlab Macsyma from Mit-dms Muddle an Experiment in Automated Resource Sharing

This paper describes an experiment in non-trivial automated resource sharing between dissimilar systems. The goal of the experiment was to interface the MUDDLE system at MIT-DMS (Host 70.) to the MACSYMA system at MIT-Mathlab (Host 198.), in such a manner that the MUDDLEuser at MIT-DMS is not required to know anything about the ARPANET, Mathlab, or even MACSYMA. In fact, the user need not be aw...

RFC 578 Using MIT - MATHLAB MACSYMA

This paper describes an experiment in non-trivial automated resource sharing between dissimilar systems. The goal of the experiment was to interface the MUDDLE system at MIT-DMS (Host 70.) to the MACSYMA system at MIT-Mathlab (Host 198.), in such a manner that the MUDDLEuser at MIT-DMS is not required to know anything about the ARPANET, Mathlab, or even MACSYMA. In fact, the user need not be aw...

Teaching with Macsyma 2.2 for Windows

‘New Macsyma 2.2 Math Software understands plain English’. ‘We believe Macsyma 2.2 can halve the time and energy required to solve problems with math software’ (Richard Petti, President, Macsyma Inc.) This article looks at some of these advertising claims and considers the potential for such features as an aid in the teaching of mathematics to mathematicians, engineers and scientists. In a shor...

Fortran Subroutines Produced from Computer Algebra Systems: Using Gentrans from Reduce and from Macsyma

An Automated Consultant for MACSYMA

Laboratory for Computer Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 Consider a person trying to solve a problem with a computer system he does not fully understand. And assume that, although he has encountered a difficulty due to his lack of knowledge, he is unwilling to learn more about the system than is necessary to solve the problem. The simplest way for him...