I’ve barely scratched the surface on using maxima but have found it useful for some symbolic integrals and formula creation I’ve worked on recently, it was able to give me answers for problems which both the free and lowest paid tier of Wolfram Alpha timed out. Since his death, a group of users and developers has formed to bring Maxima to a wider audience.
It was his efforts and skill which have made the survival of Maxima possible, and we are very grateful to him for volunteering his time and expert knowledge to keep the original DOE Macsyma code alive and well. In 1998 he obtained permission to release the source code under the GNU General Public License (GPL). The Maxima branch of Macsyma was maintained by William Schelter from 1982 until he passed away in 2001. Macsyma was revolutionary in its day, and many later systems, such as Maple and Mathematica, were inspired by it. It is the only system based on that effort still publicly available and with an active user community, thanks to its open source nature. Maxima is a descendant of Macsyma, the legendary computer algebra system developed in the late 1960s at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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The source code for all systems and precompiled binaries for Windows and Linux are available at the SourceForge file manager. app/Contents/Resources/maxima.sh > EOF > chmod +x HOME/bin/maxima > Then verify that HOME/bin is in LyXs configured PATH -. The maximum version of Mac OS X, OS X, or macOS supported by each G3 and later Mac follows. The Maxima source code can be compiled on many systems, including Windows, Linux, and MacOS X. Maxima can plot functions and data in two and three dimensions. Maxima yields high precision numerical results by using exact fractions, arbitrary-precision integers and variable-precision floating-point numbers. Maxima is a system for the manipulation of symbolic and numerical expressions, including differentiation, integration, Taylor series, Laplace transforms, ordinary differential equations, systems of linear equations, polynomials, sets, lists, vectors, matrices and tensors.