Codetricks

Computeralgebra

Computeralgebra is the use of computer programs to perform symbolic analysis and solving of equations and expressions.

In our moodle system we use Maxima, a powerfull opensource Computeralgebrasystem.

In research we often resort to Mathematica which is a commercial system. But if you own a raspberry pi, then you just need to run

sudo apt install wolfram-engine

We will install maxima https://maxima.sourceforge.io/download.html. Again you can just click the codetour link (if you open the file in vs-code source code view)...

Then open the folder 04maxima for some example files with plotting, integrating, derivatives and performing Taylor series expansions.