it should respond with something similar to: (%i1) load("plotdf") We first have to load the plotdf package (it isn’t loaded by default) so type: load("plotdf") Īnd then press return (don’t forget the semi-colon or else nothing will happen (apart from a new line!)). You are meant to type in the top most window next to (%i1) (input 1)
#Maxima for mac os x install
Install and open up the program as you would do with any other and you will be greeted by the following screen. There are a number of different themes or GUIs that you can use with the program but I’ll assume we’re working with the somewhat basic “Xmaxima” shell. Experienced users (surely more so than me) may feel free to skip the ‘boring’ parts.įirstly, to those who may not know, this is a *free* (in both the “costs no money”, and “it’s open source” senses of the word) computer algebra system that is available to download on Windows, Mac OS, and Linux platforms from and it is well documented.
My immediate disclaimer is that I am by no means an expert user!!! Furthermore, I apologise to those who have some experience with this program but I think the best way to proceed is to assume no prior knowledge of using this program or computer algebra systems in general.
#Maxima for mac os x how to
This is a short tutorial on how to get up and running with the “plotdf” function for plotting direction fields/trajectories for 1st order autonomous ODEs in Maxima. I was very impressed with the quality of the plots that he produced and so I asked him if he would mind writing up a tutorial and he did so in fine style. So, when Greg decided to write up his lecture notes in Latex he needed to come up with an alternative way of producing all of the plots and he used the free, open source computer algebra system – Maxima. Now, students at Manchester can use Mathematica on thousands of machines all over campus but we do not offer it for use on their personal machines. Greg is a student in Professor Bill Lionheart’s course entitled Asymptotic Expansions and Perturbation Methods where Mathematica is the software of choice.
This is the first post on Walking Randomly that isn’t written by me! I’ve been thinking about having guest writers on here for quite some time and when I first saw the tutorial below (written by Manchester University undergraduate, Gregory Astley) I knew that the time had finally come.
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