Re: A question!!!

[Juan Pablo Carbajal]

On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 5:22 PM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On 8 August 2013 09:38, Ester de la Torre <address@hidden> wrote:
>> My name is Ester de la Torre, I Algebra  teach at the National University of
>> San Juan, Republic of Argentina. So far I have worked with non-free
>> software. I'm interested to know if octave has tools for working with
>> polynomials matrix that is the work that we have faced with a group of
>> colleagues.
>
> Do you mean a matrix containing polynomials or a polynomial whose
> indeterminate can be matrix-valued?
>
> For the former, no, there is nothing like it yet. Someone is working
> on the symbolic package to make that happen. For the latter, a
> polynomial that takes values in a matrix is a very simple object to
> manipulate, so you can usually treat it like an ordinary univariate
> polynomial.
>
> - Jordi G. H.
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As Jordi said, Octave is not yet good at symbolic manipulation if that
is what you are looking for. Have you tried sympy or sage? Maybe they
can offer a solution while the symbolic package is fixed.