From: jonathan@chpc.utexas.edu (Jonathan Thornburg)
Newsgroups: sci.math.symbolic,sci.math.num-analysis,sci.physics
Subject: published descriptions of symbolic algebra systems (was: Re: want refs ...)
Summary: published descriptions of Macsyma, Reduce, Maple, and Mathematica
Keywords: symbolic algebra manual reference bibliography Reduce Macsyma Maple Mathematica
Date: 19 Aug 92 17:36:32 GMT
Followup-To: jonathan@einstein.ph.utexas.edu
Organization: U of Texas at Austin / Physics Dept / Center for Relativity

In article <1992Aug15.231757.15096@chpc.utexas.edu>
jonathan@chpc.utexas.edu (Jonathan Thornburg) [I] writes [wrote]:
>I'm seeking the full bibliographic citations (authors, title, date,
>publisher, ISBN if possible) of the current manuals for Reduce and
>Macsyma (I already have Maple & Mathematica).  If these manuals are
>unpublished, then a recent published description of the systems by
>their authors would be a 2nd best alternative.  Can anyone help?

Several people have asked for a summary of what I found, so here
are my thesis's bibliography entries for published descriptions
of the "big 4" symbolic algebra systems: Macsyma, Reduce, Maple,
and Mathematica:

=== MACSYMA ===

\mybibitem{Symbolics Inc.}{1988a, 1988b}
	``MACSYMA Reference Manual, Version 13, November 1988''
	and
	``MACSYMA User's Guide, January 1988'',
	both available from
	Symbolics Inc.,
	\#201 - 20 Academy Street,
	Arlington, MA 02174, USA.

\mybibitem{Pavelle, R.}{1985a}
	``Macsyma: Capabilities and Applications to
	  Problems in Engineering and the Sciences'',
	pp.~1--61 in \mycite{Pavelle}{1985b}.

\mybibitem{Pavelle, R., Ed.}{1985b}
	``Applications of Computer Algebra'',
	Reidel, Boston, 1985,
	ISBN 0-898-38173-8.

\mybibitem{Pavelle, R., and Wang, P. S.}{1985}
	``Macsyma from F to G'',
	Journal of Symbolic Computation {\bf 1}, 69--100.



=== REDUCE ===

\mybibitem{Hearn, A. C.}{1991}
	``REDUCE User's Manual, Version 3.4, July 1991'',
	RAND Corporation Publication CP-78,
	available from
	CALCODE Systems,
	1057 Amoroso Place,
	Venice CA 90291, USA.

\mybibitem{Rayna, G.}{1987}
	``REDUCE Software for Algebraic Computation'',
	Springer-Verlag, 1987,
	ISBN 0-387-96598-X (New York), 3-540-96598-X (Berlin).

\mybibitem{MacCallum, M. A. H., and Wright, F.}{1991},
	``Algebraic Computing with REDUCE'',
	Oxford University Press, Oxford,
	ISBN 0-19-853444-2 (hardcover), 0-19-853443-4 (paperback).



=== MAPLE ===

\mybibitem{Char, B. W., Geddes, K. O., Gonnet, G. H., Leong, B. L.,
	Monagan, M. B., and Watt, S. M.}{1991a}
	``Maple V Language Reference Manual'',
	Springer-Verlag,
	ISBN 0-387-97622-1 (New York), 3-540-97622-1 (Berlin).

\mybibitem{Char, B. W., Geddes, K. O., Gonnet, G. H., Leong, B. L.,
	Monagan, M. B., and Watt, S. M.}{1991b}
	``Maple V Library Reference Manual'',
	Springer-Verlag,
	ISBN 0-387-97592-6 (New York), 3-540-97592-6 (Berlin).

\mybibitem{Char, B. W., Geddes, K. O., Gonnet, G. H., Leong, B. L.,
	Monagan, M. B., and Watt, S. M.}{1992}
	``First Leaves: A Tutorial Introduction to Maple V'',
	Springer-Verlag,
	ISBN 0-387-97621-3 (New York), 3-540-97621-3 (Berlin).



=== MATHEMATICA ===

\mybibitem{Wolfram, S.}{1991}
	``Mathematica: A System for Doing Mathematics by Computer'',
	2nd Edition,
	Addison-Wesley, Redwood City,
	ISBN 0-201-51502-4 (hardcover), 0-201-51507-5 (paperback).

- Jonathan Thornburg
  <jonathan@einstein.ph.utexas.edu> or <jonathan@hermes.chpc.utexas.edu>
  University of Texas at Austin / Physics Dept / Center for Relativity
  and (for a few more months) U of British Columbia / {Astronomy,Physics}
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