[om] various

[Andrew Solomon]

1. I thought some of us would be interested to know about the
work described below.
      
2. I wonder how much longer the OpenMath site will be
down for renovation. Who's doing the renovations?
I wonder whether it's possible to keep the old site
as it was until the new one is ready to be put in place?

cheers

Andrew

On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 09:30:04AM -0800, Michael Monagan wrote:
> 
> Next week will be our last meeting of the semester.
> 
> PIMS/MITACS CAG/CECM computational algebra seminar.
> Wednesday November 28th, 4:30pm, K9509
>                          ******  *****
> 
> 
>           A new "function wizard" Maple facility
>       (Computer handbook of mathematical functions)
> 
>                  Edgardo S. Cheb-Terrab
>                      MITACS - CECM
>            Theoretical Physics Department, UERJ
> 
> 
> The computational capabilities of the Maple system concerning special
> functions are evolving rapidly. The typical requirement concerning
> math functions, however, is not just computational: typically, one
> also needs information on identities, relations, alternative
> definitions, and mathematical properties in general. We usually look
> for that information in handbooks like Abramowitz & Stegun etc.
> 
> It is clear however that most of this information found in textbooks is
> already in the internal Maple subroutines since the computational
> capabilities implemented rely on that information.
> 
> This leads naturally to the idea of a "function wizard" project, whose
> main purpose is to make / keep the mathematical information complete
> and provide access to each piece of it through a simple interface.
> Also, such a "computer algebra handbook of mathematical functions" can
> naturally provide more information than that conveyed in textbooks: it
> can respond to each request by processing whatever (growing number of)
> math information using (a growing number of) mathematical algorithms.
> 
> The function wizard project is presently under development and this
> talk presents a demo of the first prototype with basic functionality
> already in place.
> 
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