On 2/17/2011 3:15 AM, Invisible wrote:
>
> Most CAS systems I've seen are hard-wired for algebra, and many of them
> have the transformation rules hard-wired as well. Mathematica is more
> general than that.

Underneath it all, Maxima is similar. Its all symbolic. Certain things 
have certain meanings. All functionality and rules are defined in 
libraries, it has a standard set that it loads when started that gives 
pretty standard algebra and calculus. Depending on how far down the 
rabbit hole you want to go, you can even from the Maxima command line 
give it instructions in Lisp.

-- 
~Mike

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