[Axiom-developer] Re: Rule-based integration

2010-07-29 Thread Richard Fateman
TimDaly wrote: ... There has been some initial discussions between myself, Albert Rich, and David Parnas about how to think about this problem. My current thinking involves a tree-structuring of the rule patterns where each node in the tree represents one or more pattern tables and each edge

[Axiom-developer] Re: Rule-based integration

2010-07-12 Thread TimDaly
On Jul 12, 3:32 pm, Richard Fateman wrote: > There are issues in pattern matching that are fairly subtle, and may > not be obvious to the casual reader (or programmer). > > For example, you may have a rule that works to integrate > > exp(n*x) * x^m  wrt x. > Mathematica 7 gives > > -E^(-n x) (E^x)