Maxima.jl

Symbolic Computations in Julia using Maxima

Maxima.jl is a Julia package for performing symbolic computations using Maxima. Maxima is computer algebra software that provides a free and open source alternative to proprietary software such as Mathematica, Maple and others.

Features

• Contains a full Maxima repl that can be entered from the Julia repl
• Pretty I/O for Maxima expressions including Latex when using IJulia and formatted '2d' plain text in the repl
• Basic translation of expressions between Maxima and Julia
• Wrapper functions for much of the Maxima standard library that operate on Maxima expressions, Julia expressions and strings
• Plotting via Maxima's gnuplot functionality

Installation

Maxima.jl can be installed using the Julia package manager by cloning the repository from github. Maxima.jl currently supports version of Julia >= v0.4.0.

julia> Pkg.clone("https://github.com/nsmith5/Maxima.jl.git")

Maxima.jl requires a working Maxima installation. Downloads and installation instructions can be found here. If you're running a Linux operating system take a look in your local repositories.

Once Maxima is installed, check that it is accessible from the Julia shell.

julia> run(`maxima`)

A Maxima shell should open and you can quit it by entering quit(); <return> at the prompt.