Symbolic Computation

[Priyatham]

Can someone please suggest some books for practical symbolic computation?

Thanks in advance,

[Saket Choudhary]

On 14 April 2014 03:08, Priyatham <kmspri...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Can someone please suggest some books for practical symbolic computation?

You mean a tool/tutorial?. Have a look at Sage:
http://www.sagemath.org/doc/reference/calculus/sage/calculus/calculus.html

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[Priyatham]

Thanks, but I actually meant references for how I build one instead of using something pre-existing.

[Sourabh Bhat]

Hi,

I would suggest you to use Maple or Mathematica for symbolic calculations. Or if you are in linux, then you can use a free software called wxmaxima.

These tools are very easy to use, you do not need any book to learn these software, just go through basic tutorials in help of the software, and try hands on the software.

Regards,

Sourabh

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[Saket Choudhary]

On 15 April 2014 05:55, Priyatham <kmspri...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks, but I actually meant references for how I build one instead of using
> something pre-existing.

I see. If you are comfortable using python, the sage's source code doc
can help. For example, see:
https://github.com/sagemath/sage/blob/master/src/sage/symbolic/expression_conversions.py

[Harsh Gupta]

I have not read it myself but this book might help.

Common Lisp: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation:

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/LispBook/

I saw you trying to patch things up in Sympy, the python library for
symbolic computation.
You might try to ask this question on their mailing list too.

Harsh

[Priyatham]

Thanks for the book. But I think it will be tough time to try to do it in haskell with the book. It will be nice if the book is at least language neutral like CLRS.

[Dilawar Singh]

Haskell is definitely hard to learn. But something should be available in
Scheme/Lisp which is easier to learn (at least the syntax).

Basically you need to build a small Computer Algebra System (CAS) to do symbolic
computation. Any undergraduate book on CAS is a good starting point as far as
basic theory is concerned. Required theories can be learned on the job. First
chapter should give you more than enough to keep you busy for months.

The very first thing -- when implementing -- is to represent generic
mathematical symbols using numbers. Implement a class `Symbol` and do the next
obvious operation on them. C++ library GiNaC can help a great deal here.

http://www.ginac.de/reference/classGiNaC_1_1symbol.html

Just use the Symbol class, derive your classes from it and try to do some
polynomial stuff.

Dilawar

On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 10:32:32PM -0700, Priyatham wrote:
>Thanks for the book. But I think it will be tough time to try to do it in
>haskell with the book. It will be nice if the book is at least language
>neutral like CLRS.
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>On Tuesday, April 15, 2014 3:28:13 PM UTC+5:30, Harsh wrote:
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>> I have not read it myself but this book might help.
>>
>> Common Lisp: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation:
>>
>> http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/LispBook/
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>> I saw you trying to patch things up in Sympy, the python library for
>> symbolic computation.
>> You might try to ask this question on their mailing list too.
>>
>>

>> On 15 April 2014 15:13, Saket Choudhary <sak...@gmail.com <javascript:>>
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