Introduction to Yacas: tutorial and examples (here a no-frames version in a single file) |
This document gives a short introduction to Yacas. Included is a brief tutorial on the syntax and some commands to get you started using Yacas. There are also some examples. |
Programming in Yacas (here a no-frames version in a single file) |
This document should get you started programming in Yacas. There are some basic explanations and hands-on tutorials. |
Essays on Yacas (here a no-frames version in a single file) |
This is a book of essays on Yacas. It covers various topics, from using the Yacas system for specific calculations to general issues related to the Yacas system development and maintenance. |
Yacas user's function reference (here a no-frames version in a single file) |
This is the first part of the Yacas function reference. This reference contains all functions that can be useful from the command line for ordinary tasks. |
Yacas programmer's function reference (here a no-frames version in a single file) |
This is the second part of the Yacas function reference. This reference contains functions that might be useful for programming in Yacas. |
The Yacas Book of Algorithms (here a no-frames version in a single file) |
This book is a detailed description of the algorithms used in the Yacas system for exact symbolic and arbitrary-precision numerical computations. Very few of these algorithms are new, and most are well-known. The goal of this book is to become a compendium of all relevant issues of design and implementation of these algorithms. |
Design documents for new features (here a no-frames version in a single file) |
This book contains some design documents that are in progress, for new features or features or implementation details that need to be changed and improved. |
(IN PROGRESS) Lisp as an Implementation Language for Computer Algebra Systems (here a no-frames version in a single file) |
Lisp is a very simple language, one suited for doing computer algebra. Almost all CAS systems today owe a lot to the ideas that came from Lisp. This is a book on the Lisp language, and its connection to Yacas. Yacas is built on top of a Lisp dialect. |