[LUGSB] New project: GNUmatica

[Christian D Austin]

Hello,

I'm new to lugsb, and I would like to say that it is great that Stony
Brook has a club to promote Linux and the copyleft, free software
idealogy. We need to let people know about the abundance of high quality
free software that is available.

Besides being interest in Linux, I am also interested in Math,
and am a Mathematics major major myself. The GNUmatica project sounds like
a great idea, and I would like to participate. This semseter is going to
be very busy for me; so I might not be able to do anything until it is
over, but I would be willing to work during summer break.

I have experience in Java and C, but have not done that much Linux/UNIX
programming (one operating systems course). If there is anything that I
can do, please let me know.

						--Chris

On Sat, 8 Feb 2003, Michael Graffam wrote:

>
> Hello all,
>
> I'm new on campus -- a junior transfer student, majoring in mathematics.
>
> I just wanted to announce a project that I'm working on and I wanted to
> take this chance to invite any other interested Stony Brook GNU/Linux
> hackers to help.
>
> GNUmatica will be a distribution of math-oriented Linux software.
> Specifically the programs: GNU TeXmacs (mathematical typesetting editor),
> GNU Octave (MATLAB-like numerical mathematics) and Maxima (a symbolic
> computer algebra system similar to Maple).
>
> TeXmacs has the ability to call external programs. These external systems
> can be designed, or patched to interact with TeXmacs to display richly
> formatted mathematical expressions, graphs, trees, plots and so forth.
>
> GNUmatica will include patched versions of Maxima and Octave to work
> with  TeXmacs. The final leg of the project will be to allow Octave to interact
> with Maxima for symbolic expressions.
>
> Octave and Maxima are interacting with TeXmacs now, and can display very
> nice typset-quality output in a fashion similar to Maple or Mathematica.
> This interface is in some ways already far superior to Octave's native
> terminal/readline-based console or MATLAB's Java console, though much work
> remains to be done.
>
> I'll be coming to the next LUGSB meeting with my laptop to demo the
> software to anyone who'd like to see.
>
> I'd love to develop this software further here at SB and put it in a
> head-to-head competition with Maple down the road. :)
>
>
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