17th February 2003. - 121 p.Maxima is a large computer program designed for the manipulation of algebraic expressions. You can use Maxima for manipulation of algebraic expressions involving constants, variables, and functions. It can differentiate, integrate, take limits, solve equations, factor polynomials, expand functions in power series, solve differential equations in closed form, and perform many other operations. It also has a programming language that you can use to extend Maxima’s capabilities.Contents
Preface
The Maxima Program and Standard Packages
Introduction
What is Maxima?
A Brief History of Macsyma
Installing
Installing on Linux
The Easy Way
The Hard Way
Installing on Windows
The Easy Way - Installing the Windows Binary
The Hard Way
Available Interfaces to Maxima
The Terminal Interface
The Emacs Interface
Installing the Maxima Emacs Mode
Maxima-mode
Enhanced Terminal Mode
Emaxima Mode
Xmaxima
Symaxx
TEXmacs
The Basics - What you need to know to operate in Maxima
The Very Beginning
Our first Maxima Session
To Evaluate or Not to Evaluate
The Concept of Environment - The ev Command
Clearing values from the system - the kill command
Common Operators in Maxima
Assignment Operators
Trig through Calculus
Trigonometric Functions
Differentiation
Integration
Advanced Mathematics - ODEs and Beyond
Ordinary Differential Equations
Defining Ordinary Differential Equations
Solving Ordinary Differential Equations: ode
Solving Ordinary Differential Equations: desolve
Matrix Operations and Vectors
Introduction to Maxima’s Programming Language
Some Examples
Unconventional Conditionals
Assumptions
Arbitrary Numbers of Parameters
Arrays
Iteration
Serious Business
Hardcopy
Return to Arrays and Functions
More Useful Examples
Part Hacking
User Representation of Data
Graphics and Forms of Output
Options on the Command Line
1D vs 2D
TeX Strings as Output
Writing a Session to a File
Graphics
2D function plotting
3D Function Plotting
Plot Options
Maxims for the Maxima User
Help Systems and Debugging
Troubleshooting
Advanced Examples
External, Additional, and Contributed Packages
The Concept of Packages - Expanding Maxima’s Abilities
Available Packages for Maxima
List of Figures
Index
Bibliography
