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1199.0. "PARI: number theory and simple numerical analysis package" by AITG::DERAMO (Dan D'Eramo, nice person) Thu Mar 01 1990 22:36

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From: [email protected] (Viviane Deletage)
Newsgroups: sci.math
Subject: PARI: A package for number theory and simple numerical analysis
Summary: Announcing PARI 1.31, a powerful and fast number theory package
Keywords: Number theory package.
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Date: 28 Feb 90 15:06:36 GMT
Reply-To: [email protected] (Henri Cohen)
Organization: Univ. Bordeaux I, France
Lines: 51  [before I reformatted it...lines were too long -- Dan]
 
 
        This is to announce that version 1.31 of the PARI system
        for number theory is available for anonymous ftp at
        mizar.greco-prog.fr (192.33.148.32) directory pub. Pari
        is a system capable of handling complex number-theoretic
        and algebraic types with complete recursivity. The
        predefined types are integers (up to 300000 decimal
        digits), reals (same for the relative precision),
        elements of Z/nZ, rational numbers, complex numbers,
        p-adic numbers, quadratic numbers, polynomials, power
        series, algebraic extensions, rational functions, binary
        quadratic forms, vectors, matrices. Everything is
        recursive, so you can have matrices of polynomials with
        coefficients in an algebraic extension of Z/pZ for
        example. More than 200 special predefined functions,
        arithmetic or transcendental, are implemented, in
        addition to the usual arithmetic operations, which can be
        used without paying attention to the type of the object.
        The source uses more than 32000 lines of code, mainly in
        C.
 
        Pari can be used as a library, but possesses also a
        powerful calculator mode which gives instant access to
        all the types and functions. In this mode, one can write
        programs with a simple syntax a little similar to C, but
        taking also LISP-like constructs.
 
        Pari is NOT a symbolic manipulation package, in that all
        expressions are immediately expanded. For example,
        (x+y)^2 does give x^2+2xy+y^2, but sin(x) gives you the
        taylor series expansion around x=0 (to any number of
        terms specified by the user), and is not kept in the
        machine as an abstract object. It does NOT know about
        symbolic integration (except of course for polynomials or
        power series), but it does implement a number of
        numerical integration routines.
 
        The main advantage of Pari is its speed. On a SUN 3/xxx,
        it is between 5 to 100 times faster than Maple or
        Mathematica, depending on the applications. Also it is
        specially tailored for use by number theorists, hence
        contains a large number of predefined number-theoretical
        functions not found in other systems. It can of course
        profitably be used by other people as well. Finally, it
        is free.
 
        Currently, Pari has been tested on SUN 3/xxx, SUN 4/xxx
        (hence SPARCstations), and Macintoshes with a 68020/68030
        processor. A version exists which could run on other
        machines as well, but this has not been tested.
 
        In the ftp directory, you will find the complete source
        and a 77 page manual with an  extensive index in the file
        pari-1.31.tar.Z. The manual alone (to get a feel of what
        Pari is capable of doing) is in TeX, and is in man.tar.Z.
        The executable for SUN 3's is gp.Z, for SUN 4's is
        gpsparc.Z.
 
	To get the MacII or Mac SE/30 version, send an email message to
 
        [email protected]
 
        Please read carefully the README and INSTALLATION files.
        We would very much appreciate user feedback. Please
        understand that it is not a polished commercial product.
 
	Enjoy!
 
	Henri Cohen
 
	[email protected]
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1199.1AITG::DERAMODan D&#039;Eramo, nice personThu Mar 01 1990 22:4026
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From: [email protected] (Steven Stadnicki,,,)
Newsgroups: sci.math
Subject: Re: PARI: A package for number theory and simple numerical analysis
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Date: 1 Mar 90 01:33:27 GMT
References: <[email protected]>
Sender: [email protected]
Reply-To: [email protected]
Organization: Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY
Lines: 9 [again, before reformatting -- Dan]
 
        From article <[email protected]>, by
        [email protected] (Viviane Deletage): 
        
> This is to announce that version 1.31 of the PARI system for number theory
> is available for anonymous ftp at mizar.greco-prog.fr (192.33.148.32)
> directory pub.
        
        I kept trying to get this, but I was getting 'broken
        pipe' errors and couldn't get more than about 1 or 2K. 
        Has anyone else had problems with this?
 
                                 Steven Stadnicki
                                 [email protected]
1199.2No, there's no obvious answer!VMSDEV::HALLYBThe Smart Money was on GoliathFri Mar 02 1990 09:581
    I'll ask the obvious question.
1199.3Announcing PARI 1.32.1 (This time you can get it!)GUESS::DERAMODan D&#039;EramoMon May 21 1990 11:3080
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From: [email protected] (Viviane Deletage)
Newsgroups: sci.math
Subject: Announcing PARI 1.32.1 (This time you can get it!)
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Date: 10 May 90 13:26:18 GMT
Reply-To: [email protected] (Viviane Deletage)
Organization: Greco-Programmation, Bordeaux, France.
Lines: 70
 
This is to announce that version 1.32.1 of the PARI system for number
theory is available for anonymous ftp. In Europe, from seti.inria.fr 
(128.93.1.12), and in the rest of the world from math.ucla.edu (128.97.12.3),
in the directory pub/pari. 
 
The preceding version 1.31 had been announced earlier, but it was 
impossible to ftp it from North America. This is now corrected thanks to
the UCLA math department, and in particular David Cantor. In addition,
version 1.32.1 contains a great number of bug fixes (essentially for the
non 680x0 versions, see below), and enhancements, like an elliptic curve
package.
 
Pari is a system capable of handling complex number-theoretic and 
algebraic types with complete recursivity. The predefined types 
are integers (up to 300000 decimal digits), reals (same for the 
relative precision), elements of Z/nZ, rational numbers, complex numbers,
p-adic numbers, quadratic numbers, polynomials, power series, algebraic 
extensions, rational functions, binary quadratic forms, vectors, 
matrices. Everything is recursive, so you can have matrices of 
polynomials with coefficients in an algebraic extension of Z/pZ for example.
More than 200 special predefined functions, arithmetic or transcendental, 
are implemented, in addition to the usual arithmetic operations, which 
can be used without paying attention to the type of the object. The source 
uses more than 25000 lines of C-code (plus 7000 lines of assembly-code for
the 680x0 version).
 
Pari can be used as a library, but possesses also a powerful calculator 
mode which gives instant access to all the types and functions. In this 
mode, one can write programs with a simple syntax a little similar to C, 
but taking also LISP-like constructs.
 
Pari is NOT a symbolic manipulation package, in that all expressions are 
immediately expanded. For example, (x+y)^2 does give x^2+2xy+y^2, but 
sin(x) gives you the taylor series expansion around x=0 (to any number 
of terms specified by the user), and is not kept in the machine as an 
abstract object. It does NOT know about symbolic integration (except 
of course for polynomials or power series), but it does implement a number 
of numerical integration routines.
 
The main advantage of Pari is its speed. On a SUN 3/xxx, it is between 5 
to 100 times faster than Maple or Mathematica, depending on the 
applications. Also it is specially tailored for use by number theorists, 
hence contains a large number of predefined number-theoretical
functions not found in other systems. It can of course profitably be 
used by other people as well. Finally, it is free.
 
Currently, Pari has been tested on SUN 3/xxx, SUN 4/xxx (hence SPARCstations),
and Macintoshes with a 68020/68030 processor. A version exists which 
runs on other machines as well, for example the DEC3100 and the SGI, but no
attempt has been made to achieve complete portability. 
 
In the ftp directory, you will find the complete source and a 77 page manual
(in TeX) with an extensive index in the file pari-1.32.1.tar.Z. 
 
To get the MacII or Mac SE/30 version, ftp the file pari-1.31.sit.hqx
(which contains the older version) from math.ucla.edu, or send mail to
 
        [email protected]
 
to get the newer version (which will hopefully be also installed at UCLA soon).
 
Please read carefully the README and INSTALLATION files. We would very much 
appreciate user feedback. Please understand that it is not a polished 
commercial product.
 
Enjoy!
 
Henri Cohen
 
[email protected]
1199.4new versionHERON::BUCHANANcombinatorial bomb squadThu Oct 25 1990 14:4742
	Can some one tell me please:

		(1) What is anonymous ftp?

		(2) What sequence of characters I need to type in order to suck
	Pari across?

		(3) What precautions I should take to ensure that I am 
	following Digital policy in terms of importing foreign software?

Thanks for your help,
Andrew.

Article 4344 of sci.math
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From: [email protected] (Henri Cohen)
Newsgroups: sci.math,sci.math.symbolic,sci.math.num-analysis
Subject: Announcing Pari-1.34
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Date: 24 Oct 90 16:04:33 GMT
Organization: University of Bordeaux I - FRANCE
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The public domain software package Pari-1.34 is now available for anonymous ftp
from math.ucla.edu (128.97.12.3). This package is primarily intended for
number-theoretic computations and some simple numerical analysis, and is fast.
Versions exist for Sun 3, sun 4, and generic 32 bit Unix system. The Mac II
version can also be loaded from ucla.

Version 1.34 corrects numerous bugs, and has a number of added functionalities,
such as elliptic curves, an improved version of LLL, etc...

Send all Pari related mail, NOT to ucla (except for ftp related questions),
but to

[email protected]

Henri Cohen


1199.5ALLVAX::JROTHIt&#039;s a bush recording...Thu Oct 25 1990 19:0813
    I'm in the process of obtaining a copy.

    The problem is that our gateway does not allow general access
    to the outside world for security reasons, mail and newsgroups
    excepted.  So when things like this come up, usually someone
    has a friend somewhere mail the uucoded shell archive files
    to a person at DEC who can then put the files in a public
    place.  That's how we get things like gnu sources, raytracing
    packages, etc...

    (anonymous ftp is file transfer protocol that allows world read)

    - Jim
1199.6JARETH::EDPAlways mount a scratch monkey.Fri Oct 26 1990 08:3317
    Re .4:
    
    There is an FTP mail server at Princeton.  You send it mail messages,
    it does the FTP and mails you the results.  Large files are sent in
    multiple parts, and binary files are sent in encoded form.  (I have a
    decoder for UUENCODE.)  To get started, send mail to
    DECWRL::"[email protected]".  Send a message with HELP in the text.
    
    I have a command procedure that formats and sends the mail, takes the
    return messages out of your mail file, extracts the parts into files,
    removes the mail headers, and concatenates all the parts.  However, it
    is a hack that relies on the precise subject lines that the Princeton
    server generates, and they changed them recently; I need to rework it a
    bit before it is ready for general use.
    
    
    				-- edp
1199.7JARETH::EDPAlways mount a scratch monkey.Fri Oct 26 1990 09:4267
    Here's the README file from math.ucla.edu.  It looks like the Pari
    package is in Unix's tape archive format?  I don't know if we'll be
    able to use it.
    
    
    				-- edp
    
    
Welcome to UCLA Math Department.  Here's a list of what's available from
here via anonymous FTP.  We currently don't accept incoming FTP files.

Please mail requests, comments, etc., to "[email protected]".
-------
README		You're reading it....
ls-lRt		A recursive list of the files, with last-modified times
====
pub/etc		A collection of network utilities, primarily for other UCLA
			hosts: lists of machines on UCLA Physical Sciences
			network, list of networks at UCLA, a fixed portmapper,
			a script to set up static routes, etc.
====
pub/gap-2.4.tar.Z  GAP (Groups, Algorithms and Programming) developed at Aachen
====
pub/glatex	Yiannis Moschovakis' Greek LaTeX package, available two ways:
	glatex.tar.Z	Everything in one (big) tar archive, compressed.
	glatex		The various pieces individually.  For each directory,
				there is also a compress'ed, tar file.
		README		Indispensable; also "glatex.doc" below.
		dosfiles	Utilities for printing results on DOS machines.
		ginputs		LaTeX input files for "Greeklish."
		gmf		The MF files for producing the fonts.
		glatex.doc	READ IT!
		glfonts.tex	Substitute for "lfonts.tex".
		glplain.fmt	A format file for TeX 3.0 using the above.
		gpks		PK files for a Canon CX print engine (300 dpi)
				(Note: the PK files are compressed "by nature,"
					so no further compression is needed.)
		gtfms		TFM files for the above

====
pub/named       Berkeley's namedaemon v4.8 for Sun and VAX, with hints for
			setting it up.
====
pub/nettools	Various tools useful for playing with networks.  Includes
			tcpdump and some other goodies.
====
pub/nmp.tar.Z	Network multiprocessor distribution by Marius Olafsson from
			the University of Alberta. Version 4.1 of June 1988.
====
pub/pari
                The Pari package for number theory, by H. Cohen, et al.
    pari-1.32.tar.Z
			Version 1.32, suitable for Sun3 and Sun4 (at least).
    pari-1.32.1.tar.Z
			An updated version of the above -- nothing new,
				just a few bugs are corrected.
    pari-1.31.sit.hqx
			An older version, for the Macintosh.  Needs to be
				de-binhexed and Unstuffed.
====
pub/sendmail   Berkeley's latest v5.59 with a generic sendmail.cf, for VAX
                        and Sun (2 versions).
====
pub/untamo     Untamo logout daemon ported to SunOS 3.5 with special extensions
			to configuration file and use with suntools.
====

1199.8GUESS::DERAMODan D&#039;EramoFri Oct 26 1990 10:524
	I can uncompress and untar files on my ULTRIX workstation.
	You might need ULTRIX to run it on anyway.

	Dan
1199.9Ask DECWRL.CADSYS::COOPERTopher CooperFri Oct 26 1990 10:5910
    The preferred way to import things like this is to request that the
    folk at DECWRL put it on their "public" directory so that anyone who
    wants to can just do a "copy".  Something of this size is likely to
    overload the mail system which is set up to handle small to moderate
    size files, so FTPing large programs through the Princeton FTP-to-mail
    system is a no-no.

    I'll post details in the next reply.

				    Topher
1199.11Too quickly written, means quickly corrected.CADSYS::COOPERTopher CooperFri Oct 26 1990 11:0913
    I just reread my .9 and realized that I didn't say what I meant to say
    there.  It is true that big files should not be mailed but, as has
    already been pointed out, the princeton FTP-to-mail gateway breaks them
    into lots of small mail messages (unlike some of the NETSERVE servers
    which interface BITNET archives to internet).  However, that replaces
    one problem with another: instead of a few large mail messages you have
    dozens or even hundreds of medium sized ones competing with "real" mail
    for the gateway.  I would recommend this only in the case that DECWRL
    declined to place PARI in its public directory, and then I would use
    a batch queue to send out the request in the evening or the early
    morning (in either case for both Eastern and Pacific time zones).

					Topher
1199.12Brian Reid on FTPingCADSYS::COOPERTopher CooperFri Oct 26 1990 12:2470
From: [email protected] (Brian Reid)
Newsgroups: dec.ip
Subject: Re: Internet access
Date: 26 Mar 90 06:26:45 GMT
References: <[email protected]>
Organization: DEC Western Research
Lines: 60

All "external" access in Digital is regulated by the External Access Review
Committee, EXARC. The contact for EXARC is Chuck Noble at VRO. For your site
to have any form of external access you must have a license from EXARC.

Internet access is one form of external access (others are X.400, X.25, UUCP,
offsite machines, etc).

Digital is in the process of revising its Internet external access policy.
As a result, the current policy is likely to be only of academic interest to
anyone who does not currently have external access. I cannot give you any
information about the nature of the revisions, because there are so many
factors involved and so many people involved. Suffice it to say that we are
trying to find ways to give access to more people without endangering more of
the company's computers.

The current policy grants external Internet access to certain machines. That
access is granted by means of a packet screen at the gateway permitting the
exchange of IP packets between those machines and the outside world.
I am aware of 5 machines that have external access permission, though I am
hoping to see major changes in the configurations of those machines if their
access is to be continued.

You, as an individual, can get external access by getting an account on an
external access machine. At the moment, such accounts are available only to
people whose personnel records are located in the same personnel office as
the management of the external access machine; this is to enable a mechanism
of notification when an employee terminates. If we granted you an account on
one of the external access machines in Palo Alto and then you left Digital to
go work for a competitor, we would not be notified of this departure because
the exit procedure does not include any "notify Palo Alto" clause. In fact,
it is my understanding that Massachusetts law prohibits any such notification.

Under extraordinary circumstances, where there is an urgent business need,
external access accounts have been granted to people who do not meet the
"local records" criterion. To give you a sense of what "extraordinary" means
here, Roger Heinen was turned down in his request for such an account.
(Maybe that's why he left the company?)

Most people want external access for one of two reasons: to make terminal
connections to or from a university, or to run "ftp" to copy files, either
personal files (typically from a university) or public files (typically from
a major archive like simtel or uunet).

For the moment we can't help you if you want Internet access for remote
terminal access. The best we can do is to provide 2-way electronic mail
service. However, if what you want is file transfer from a public archive,
you can send mail to [email protected] (that's decwrl::gatekeepers
to you DECNET droids) asking us to add something to the list of things in
decwrl::"/pub". We keep an amazing amount of stuff in decwrl::"/pub",
and every time anybody FTP's anything interesting in from the outside, we add
it to that archive. A lot of what you want can be found there.

By the way: virtually none of Digital's Internet networking folks, who would
be able to answer questions like this, read notes files. We all read netnews,
though. Questions like this are likely to be answered much faster if you ask
them in the right forum.

Brian Reid
Western Research Laboratory and Network Systems Laboratory
Palo Alto


1199.13FTP address correction.CADSYS::COOPERTopher CooperSat Oct 27 1990 12:4415
From: [email protected] (Henri Cohen)
Newsgroups: sci.math,sci.math.symbolic,sci.math.num-analysis
Subject: Announcing Pari-1.34 (Correction)
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Date: 26 Oct 90 10:26:00 GMT
Organization: University of Bordeaux I - FRANCE
Lines: 5
Xref: shlump.nac.dec.com sci.math:13037 sci.math.symbolic:1803
sci.math.num-analysis:1252


Sorry, the ftp address for ucla is now 128.97.64.16.
You can get pari-1.34 in the directory pub/pari.

H. Cohen
1199.14almost (but no cigar)ALLVAX::JROTHIt&#039;s a bush recording...Sat Oct 27 1990 14:337
    I have a uucoded copy of the .tar file, but when I unpacked
    it got a directory checksum error, and all that came thru was
    the ascii text file of recent changes.

    I'll try again; I'm unsure what I did wrong.

    - Jim
1199.15have a copy now.ALLVAX::JROTHfrom Saturday alley up to Sunday StreetWed Nov 21 1990 01:0217
    The .tar file is on

	adew::/pub/pari-1-34.tar.Z

    I have unpacked it but not had time to build a copy yet.

    I apologise for the delay in getting it, there were some problems,
    maybe with the network link we used...

    I'll be looking it at tomorrow (on a MIPS machine), but it looks like
    there is a makefile that will work for a DS3100 as well as the SUN
    build files.  I'm interested in some of the integer lattice stuff;
    they have an LLL algorithm which may be useful for making a more
    efficient spectral test for random number generators, among other
    things.

    - Jim
1199.16Any help for VMS users?CIVAGE::LYNNLynn Yarbrough @WNP DTN 427-5663Mon Oct 21 1991 11:4710
I am interested in getting PARI running on my VMS system. I tried copying
to my WS, decompressing, etc. but something along the way failed and it's 
not clear what went wrong - the file transfer, decomp, de-tar, ...
Anyhow, I can't use what I have. SO:

Has anyone built PARI for VMS (I assume it's in C)?

Has anyone a copy of the PARI source, uncompressed etc.?

Is a set of documentation available? Hardcopy? Machine readable?
1199.17Available for MS-DOS?CIV009::LYNNLynn Yarbrough @WNP DTN 427-5663Fri Apr 10 1992 18:1810
My last message here having gotten no response, let me ask in another form:

I am interested in getting PARI running on my MS-DOS system. 

Has anyone built PARI for MS-DOS (I assume it's in C)? (I can't currently 
afford the MS-C package; maybe Borland ... ?

Has anyone a copy of the PARI source, uncompressed etc.?

Is a set of documentation available? Hardcopy? Machine readable?
1199.18MuPAD V1.2.1AZUR::DESOZAJean-Pierre,Sophia-Antipolis 828-5559Thu Feb 23 1995 03:1515
People at the University of Paderborn in Germany have built a very interesting
maths package with a graphical user interface based on PARI. The online 
documentation (actual books, not only help) is good. Unfortunately (for me)
the reference manual is in german. There is enough documentation in english
to get started and use it. 

Supported platforms are:
- Many U*x platforms including: PC/Linux, PC/FreeBSD, MIPS/Ultrix.
- Macintosh w/ and w/o FPU. The no-FPU version runs on PowerPC too.
- The PC/Windows version is in demo phase at the moment.

The licence is free and unlimited for non-commercial usages.
The package is available on physical media or electronically via ftp.
For all information see their WWW page at:
	http://math-www.uni-paderborn.de/~cube/
1199.19AZUR::DESOZAJean-Pierre,Sophia-Antipolis 828-5559Tue Jul 25 1995 08:21245
The documentation used to be in German, now it's in English.
It's free! Take a look at it! And mayge you'll find it deserves an Alpha
version!
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

		===================================
		Announcement of MuPAD version 1.2.2
		===================================

Dear MuPAD friend,

here a message  from the developers of MuPAD  to inform you about
the new release MuPAD 1.2.2.

MuPAD 1.2.2 is a  major  release  update  in  comparison  to  the
mathematical  capabilities  of  MuPAD  1.2.1, but a minor release
update in comparison to the kernel and the  frontends   of  MuPAD
1.2.1.

New functions
=============

series expansion, limit computation, asymptotic expansion,  solv-
ing  diophantine  and  polynomial   equations,  solving  ordinary
differential   equations, definite  and   indefinite   summation,
decomposition     of     polynomials,   combining  and  expanding
algebraic terms, continued   fraction  arithmetic,  partial frac-
tion   decomposition,  computing  the  triangular form of complex
expressions, simplification of  expressions containing   radicals
and  exponentials, Bessel   functions, another  term ordering  of
polynomials (DegInvLexOrder), primality  proving  using  elliptic
curves,  finding  factors  of  an  integer  using  Pollard's  rho
method, TeX-output  of  expressions,  representation of  infinite
numbers,  standard  deviation,   variance   of  a list of values,
chi square and normal distribution, Stirling numbers,  collecting
coefficients of polynomials, roots of univariate polynomials with
coefficients in Z/nZ, integer roots of rational univariate  poly-
nomials,  infinite   decimal representation  of rational numbers,
enhancement and improvement  of  the symbolic  integration  (e.g.
numerical  integration),    the  Groebner     package   and   the
linear    algebra  package  (e.g.   eigenvalues,  jordan   forms,
exponential  of  matrices),   RGB   values for    color    names,
polar/spherical/cylindrical   coordinate plots,   implicit plots,
vector field  plots,  alias   mechanism, userinfo, algorithms for
networks (shortest pathes, maximal flow, minimal flow,  topologi-
cal sorting), and many many more.

Online documentation (Reference manual and help pages) in English.
Note, that the reference manual is a first draft version.
Hypertext previewer is now able to manage more than one document
and is able to display GIF pictures. No external GIF previewer is
needed. Now you can use wildcards in the help command, for example
? plot* or ? plot??

For latest informations and demos refer via WWW to
http://math-www.uni-paderborn.de/~cube/RELEASE_122/

You can get MuPAD 1.2.2 from ftp.uni-paderborn.de. Other ftp server
will update MuPAD next week. Please read the file README to check
if MuPAD 1.2.2 is already installed on this server.

The next section gives an short overview of all new functions. See
on-line help for detailed informations, for example ?stats::stdev,
?series, ?numlib::proveprime, ?plotlib::fieldplot. 
Type loadlib("<name">): info(<name>); to get all functions of the
specified package, where <name> is one of the following packages:
combinat, domains, groebner, intlib, linalg, misc, module, numlib,
ode, orthpoly, plotlib, RGB, sharelib, stats and Type. 
(faclib, gcdlib, series, specfunc and stdlib have no interface)


Standard Library 
----------------

alias, asympt,  collect,  combine, conjugate,  contfrac, decompose,
expose, Factor, fun, func, Im, infinity,  limit, linsert, linsolve,
normal, partfrac, pdioe, primpart, radsimp, randpoly, Re, rectform, 
resultant, revert, RootOf, series, simplify, solve, sum, TeX, unalias, 
userinfo

Special functions 
-----------------

besselJ, besselY, eint, psi

New simplification rules added to almost all functions in this package.

Linear Algebra (linalg) 
-----------------------

cholesky, curl, divergence, eigenValues, exp, extractMatrix,
grad, isHermitian, isOrthogonal, isPosDef, jacobian, jordan-
Form, randomMatrix, vectorPotential

Domains (domains) 
-----------------

Domains:  AlgebraicExtension, Infinity, Interval, Product,
TruncatedPowerSeries, ExpressionField

Categories:  FiniteCollectionCat,  HomogenousFiniteCollectionCat,
HomogenousFiniteProductCat, Module, RightModule


Plot Package (plotlib)           
----------------------
 
cylindricalplot, fieldplot, implicitplot,  polarplot,  spherical-
plot, xrotate, yrotate


Number Theory (numlib) 
----------------------

decimal, pollard, proveprime


Statistics (stats)
------------------

ChiSquare, mean, normal, stdev, variance


Miscellaneous
-------------

faclib::roots, sharelib::iroots, 


Ordinary differential equations (ode)
-------------------------------------

MuPAD 1.2.2 can recognize (and solve if possible) the following
kinds of equations:

- linear equations with constant coefficients
- autonomous equations
- linear equations that have a simple adjoint equation
- first order equation of the form a(x)+y'(x)+b(x)*y(x)=0
- first-order linear systems with constant coefficients
- separate equations
- linear equations that have polynomial solutions

See ?ode for more details.


Algorithms for networks (network)
---------------------------------

AddEdge,  AddVertex,   AllShortPath,   ChangeEdge,  ChangeVertex,
Complete,   ConvertSSQ,  Cycle,  DelEdge,  DelVertex,  ECapacity,
EWeight, Edge, Epost, Epre, InDegree,  IsEdge,  IsVertex,   Long-
Path,  MaxFlow, MinCost, MinCut, OutDegree,  PrintGraph,  Random,
ShortPath,  TopSort, Vertex, VWeight.

Numerical integration
---------------------

Numerical  integration  is  invoked  by  applying  float  to  the
unevaluated   integral   as  in  int(f(x),x=a..b);  float(%);  or
directly by calling float(int(f(x),x=a..b)). Only  finite  inter-
vals  can  be  handled  by  now, e.g. this implementation doesn't
accept the values infinity or -infinity for a and/or b. f must be
continuous  in  [a,  b], e.g. there are no endpoint singularities
and no discontinuity in the interior of the interval of  integra-
tion. Otherwise the numerical integration returns the unevaluated
integral.


New platforms
=============
 
* Hewlett-Packard 9000/700, HP-UX 9.0 or later
* PC, NetBSD 1.0 or later
 
Alpha releases (not available by now):
* PC, MS-Windows 3.1 or later
* PC, Linux-ELF
* Motif version for Sun 4


Comparisons/Reviews
===================

Paul Zimmermann, a researcher from INRIA,  has  written  a  paper
"Wester's  Test  Suite  in MuPAD 1.2.2" based on Michael Wester's
paper "A Review of CAS mathematical Capabilities". Paul describes
the  problems that can be solved with MuPAD, whereas the original
paper describes the capabilities of Axiom, Derive, Macsyma, Maple,
Mathematica and Reduce to solve these problems.

* Paul Zimmermann: Wester's test suite in MuPAD 1.2.2, 1995
  Can be found on 
  http://math-www.uni-paderborn.de/~cube/RELEASE_122/WESTER/wester.html
  or in the April issue of the CAN Nieuwsbrief 14, 1995.
* Michael Wester: A Review of CAS Mathematical Capabilities, 1994
  Can be found on ftp://math.unm.edu/pub/cas/

Frank Postel has written a paper "c't magazine test suite" based 
on Braun's article "Das Ende des Bleistifts". 

* Frank Postel: c't magazine test suite with MuPAD 1.2.2, 1995
  Can be found on 
  http://math-www.uni-paderborn.de/~cube/RELEASE_122/CT-TEST/CT_test.html
* Stefan Braun, Harald Haeuser: Das Ende des Bleistifts, 
  c't, issue 7, July 1995.


New MuPAD ftp sites 
===================
 
From now on MuPAD is also available (mirrored) on the following
official ftp sites:
 
   Germany
      ftp.uni-paderborn.de      : /pub/unix/MuPAD (home site)
      math-ftp.uni-paderborn.de : /pub/MuPAD     
      ftp.ask.uni-karlsruhe.de  : /pub/education/mathematics/MuPAD
      ftp.Germany.EU.Net        : /pub/comp/applications/math/mupad
   France
      ftp.inria.fr              : /lang/MuPAD
   USA   
      ftp.math.utah.edu         : /pub/mupad 
      archives.math.utk.edu     : /software/multi-platform/MuPAD
 
Additional ftp server for Linux-MuPAD
      ftp sunsite.unc.edu       : /pub/Linux/apps/math/MuPAD
      with official mirrows in Asia (Thailand, Hong Kong, Japan),
      Australia, Europe (Austria, Czech Republic, France, Germany,
      Hungary, Italy, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom),
      North America (USA) and South America (Chile).

For latest information refer via WWW to 
http://math-www.uni-paderborn.de/~cube/FAQ/INTERNET_SERVICES/ftp.html

We hope that solves your problems of breaking connections to
our often overloaded site. Special thanks to Paul Zimmermann
(INRIA), Christian Hettler (ASK), Nelson Beebe and Pieter
Bowman (University of Utah).

For a better support outside France and Germany we are looking
for further official MuPAD sites. Especially in South America,
Australia, Asia, ... Please, if you are able and willing to mirror
MuPAD on your site send a mail to [email protected]