Greetings! Tim, this history is simply breathtaking. Thank you so much for all you have done and continue to do for this project. Congratulations, and happy anniversary! Take care, -- Camm Maguire ad
Axiom was originally developed at IBM Research under Dr. Richard Jenks. The project went through several generations and had many contributors. It was the one of the leading research projects at the
Actually I find the fact that some students found it intuitive to be intriguing - I would not have expected any of them to react in that fashion. If I understand correctly, the objection is to the us
As a "first impression" I think this feedback is quite valuable. I wonder how these same students will feel at the end of a semester of using Axiom. Do you plan to ask them again? I would also like t
Quoting Alasdair McAndrew <address@hidden>: In a recent email to me, Bill Page claimed: The last commercial version of Axiom included a very nice tutorial that could be run from with the techexplorer
The words abstruse and recondite often used to refer to the calculations performed by mathematicians and has a connotation of being somehow at the same time "deep", "unfathomable" and maybe profound.
Of course this actually has very little to do with literate programming... But yes, of course I agree with you. However there are also a lot of mathematicians involved in the MathML and OpenMath proj
Thank you! :-) I expect that the only reason for this is the people involved in trying to get the open source version of Axiom to work had little idea about this. I know I didn't know because I was o
Ralf, Yes of course. There has been a long ongoing discussion about how best to implement Hyperdoc and Axiom Graphics on Windows because of this issue. X11 is required because both HyperDoc and Axiom
Chudnovsky was not making the distinction between "symbolic computation" and "computer algebra" that Steven Watt is making in the papers that I cited previously. Perhaps Gaby, you were also was using