Maxima for Symbolic Computation Program

The offical homepage for Maxima is located at http://maxima.sourceforge.net/. This page is no longer maintained.

Maxima is a Common Lisp implementation of MIT's Macsyma system for computer based algebra. Maxima is now about to be released under the GNU Public License. I have maintained and extended Maxima for the last 15 years, but have only recently received formal permission from DOE, to release this under GPL as a derivative work. This formalizes earlier opinions from DOE.

Plotting via netmath over the network.
Computations over network
Well tested on a large array of problems.
Source level Debugger for maxima code
Documentation available as html, or texinfo and so info, and so dvi and postscript.
Latest source development version available or look here for how to download using cvs.
Easy to extend in fundamentally new ways, because you have complete access to source, and access to Common Lisp.
Portable to many systems.
Now covered by GNU public license, so it will stay free.
Was the first computer algebra system, and is one of the best.
Some screenshots of xmaxima: ms windows or xwindows version are the same:
It is possible to evaluate forms from web pages in local maxima or in remote ones. Also to access pari, octave, and gap from netmath.
Some screenshots of source level debugging debugger
- debugger using dbl under emacs (arrow points to where you are executing)
- debugger in in xmaxima (current execution line in red)
- help commands for debugger
see maxima mailing list

You can look testdrive Maxima under NetMath over the network, by going to NetMath

Downloads

There are Debian and Red Hat prebuilt packages available on the web.
You may download download the source (good for unix), and a linux compiled version.
There is a version of maxima for MS Windows, using the free mingw gcc compilers: download this Windows executable version.
- of the documentation in pdf format
- manual in dvi format.
- current source snapshot of Maxima
- current source snapshot of GCL

The Windows version is essentially the same as xmaxima available in the Unix version under x windows. It incorporates a small web browser (netmath) into the maxima display. So pages of sample calculations can be stored in web form, and the input simply edited. Computations of maxima, and plots are done locally, but the computations using some other systems are done remotely. To submit new code please follow guidelines See here for using the above maxima as a lisp. William F. Schelter (wfs@math . utexas. edu)

Building Maxima on Unix

First get latest version of gcl and compile it.
Get latest version of maximaand compile it.
do make install
usually the current source snapshots are also a reasonable bet, since I make sure they are compatible levels.

There is a compiled version for linux, in the directory. I will update that version someday. There are rpms for redhat and .deb files for debian, found with the usual rpmfind and debian search methods. The source is now under cvs (or see here and you can download various versions, including any changes. We will still put tar releases of the sources in the ftp directories. You may also get a snapshots of documentation and source: