Abstract
Computer algebra (or symbolic computations or manipulations) is a powerful tool available for more than twenty years to mathematicians, engineers and scientists, through appropriate computer software packages, both with mainframes and minicomputers, as well as with personal microcomputers. Five such computer programs were reviewed in [1] last February. We can add that today the best of these programs, MACSYMA, is also available for microcomputers based on INTEL's 80386 chip. Moreover, other competitive packages, DERIVE, REDUCE and MATHEMATICA, are advertised (as is the case with MACSYMA as well) in ASME's Mechanical Engineering and/or SIAM's SIAM News. A book on the theory of computer algebra, by Akritas, appeared in 1989 [2], and the practical application of computer algebra can be found in Wolfram's book Mathematica [3], which was published in 1988 and is commercially available independent of the associated software (that is, the computer program MATHEMATICA).
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