{"id":11935,"date":"2023-05-31T20:54:45","date_gmt":"2023-06-01T00:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=11935"},"modified":"2023-05-31T20:54:45","modified_gmt":"2023-06-01T00:54:45","slug":"maxima-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=11935","title":{"rendered":"Maxima release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just finished uploading the latest release, 5.47.0, of our beautiful <a href=\"https:\/\/maxima.sourceforge.io\/\">Maxima project<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/maxima.sourceforge.io\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-11936\" src=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/maxima-5_47.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"759\" height=\"481\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/maxima-5_47.png 1138w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/maxima-5_47-300x190.png 300w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/maxima-5_47-1024x649.png 1024w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/maxima-5_47-768x487.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 759px) 100vw, 759px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was a harder battle than I anticipated, lots of little build issues I had to fix before it was ready to go.<\/p>\n<p>Maxima remains one of the three major computer algebra systems. Perhaps a bit (but only a bit!) less elegant-looking than Mathematica, and perhaps a bit (but only a bit!) less capable on some friends (exotic integrals, differential equations) than Maple, yet significantly more capable on other fronts (especially I believe abstract index tensor algebra and calculus), it also has a unique property: it&#8217;s free and open source.<\/p>\n<p>It is also one of the oldest pieces of major software that remains in continuous use. Its roots go back to the 1960s. I occasionally edit 50-year old code in its LISP code base.<\/p>\n<p>And it works. I use it every day. It is &#8220;finger memory&#8221;, my &#8220;go to&#8221; calculator, and of course there&#8217;s that tensor algebra bit.<\/p>\n<p>Maxima also has a beautiful graphical interface, which I admit I don&#8217;t use much though. You might say that I am &#8220;old school&#8221; given my preference for the text UI, but that&#8217;s really not it: the main reason is that once you know what you&#8217;re doing, the text UI is simply more efficient.<\/p>\n<p>I hope folks will welcome this latest release.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=11935' send='false' layout='button_count' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just finished uploading the latest release, 5.47.0, of our beautiful Maxima project. It was a harder battle than I anticipated, lots of little build issues I had to fix before it was ready to go. Maxima remains one of the three major computer algebra systems. Perhaps a bit (but only a bit!) less elegant-looking <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=11935' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-algebra","category-personal","category-49-id","category-35-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11935"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11938,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11935\/revisions\/11938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}