By the name Of ALLAH the

Most Merciful and Mighty

Presentation on:

MACSYMA
Presented By:

Junaid Khan
C.No 33
M.Sc Morning (Final)
Dept of Computer Science
University of Peshawar
Macsyma:
Macsyma is a general purpose symbolic-
numerical-graphical mathematics software product.  You
can use it to solve simple problems specified by one-line
commands (such as finding the indefinite integral of a
function), or to perform very complicated computations
by means of a large Macsyma program. 
Macsyma offers:

1. symbolic and numeric manipulation and solution

capabilities in algebra, calculus and numerical analysis
2. 2D and 3D report-quality graphics
3. interactive scientific notebooks
4. a user programming environment.
 MACSYMA (Maxima):
is a large,
interactive computer system designed to
assist engineers, scientists, and
mathematicians in solving mathematical
problems. A user supplies symbolic
inputs and MACSYMA yields symbolic,
numeric or graphic results.
 Scientific Notebooks - Beautiful re-executable
scientific documents

Scientific Graphics: Macsyma's full 2D and 3D scientific graphics can be edited

in place in the notebook. Five custom dialogs control hundreds of attributes and
viewpoint, zoom, clipping, rendering, lighting, animation. Query for coordinates with
your mouse.
Data Viewer: Import and export of vector and 2D array data in several common
formats (CSV, delimited and fixed field text). You can make changes to individual
data points in the Data Viewer and Macsyma automatically updates any associated
2D or 3D graphic.
Math Display: Besides displaying math symbols and Greek letters, Macsyma
formats large expressions to help your eye interpret them quickly and easily.
Optional formatted echo of math input.
Text Processing: Macsyma provides full text processing, including control of
fonts for each character, paragraphs, page formats, with Greek letters and math
symbols embedded in the text.
Hypertext and Navigation: Macsyma lets you add hypertext links within and
between Macsyma notebooks. The "Navigate" dialog shows you a table of contents
or a short summary of every section in a notebook, letting you jump to the section
of your choice
Maxima development history
1968–1982 Project MAC (Machine-Aided Cognition) at
MIT.
Much of present-day code dates to that era
1982–2001 Fateman coerced MIT into turning over a
snapshot
of Macsyma to US Dept of Energy. Commercial version was
developed in the 1980’s and 1990’s, while the DOE
snapshot
(“DOE Macsyma”) was distributed to universities. One copy
was maintained by Bill Schelter, who asked for and received
permission from DOE to release his copy under terms of
GPL
(1998)
2001–present Death of Bill Schelter (2001), project moved
to
Sourceforge, new maintainers for Maxima (Jim Amundson)
and (Camm Maguire), many new participants, lots of
new code, increase of downloads
Recent developments 2001–present

•Improved plotting functions

•Improved documentation
•Several user interface projects
•Imported math libraries (LAPACK,
QUADPACK)
•Mathematical functions
•Many bug fixes
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Hard work is like stairs and
luck is like a lift…
Sometimes lift may fails but
stairs will always take you to
the top…

By (Jhoney Michel)
 Any
Question?
Thanks Alot!