NAME

JACAL - symbolic mathematics system

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

JACAL is a symbolic mathematics system for the simplification and manipulation of equations and single and multiple valued algebraic expressions constructed of numbers, variables, radicals, and algebraic functions, differential, and holonomic functions. In addition, vectors and matrices of the above objects are included.

OPTIONS

The optional argument to the jacal script is the Scheme implementation to run. Absent the argument, it searches for implementations in the above order.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

SCHEME_LIBRARY_PATH: is the SLIB Scheme library directory.

FILES

jacal.info: Texinfo documentation of jacal.
demo: batch("demo"); to demonstrate commands in jacal
rw.math: batch("rw.math"); to demonstrate tensors in "The Robertson-Walker Cosmology Model".
test.math: batch("test.math"); for regression suite.

AUTHORS

Aubrey Jaffer (agj @ alum.mit.edu)
Michael Thomas
Jerry D. Hedden