>> Great to hear it. As noted on the ideas page, this one will require a >> good deal of thought to be done in the application, so let's start >> discussing.
Thanks a lot, and sorry for the late reply >> Another thing I'd like to know is if there's literature on solving >> algorithms, particularly solving transcendental equations, and very >> particularly on if there are any complete algorithms out there for >> some class of equations. I found a old paper called "SOLVING SYMBOLIC EQUATIONS WITH PRESS" http://www.research.ed.ac.uk/portal/files/413486/Solving_Symbolic_Equations_%20with_PRESS.pdf >> Do we know how other computer algebra systems solve this problem? How >> robust are the algorithms behind wolframalpha.com ? I have found another paper "A Review of Symbolic Solvers" http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.44.9444&rep=rep1&type=pdf and according to it Mathematica performs performs pretty bad. >> An audit of the current solve code might be in order. In particular, >> I'd like to know: >> >> 1. what are the different "solvers"? (if we split solve into "hints" >> like with dsolve, these would be the different hints), and >> 2. which are algorithmically complete (i.e., we know they will give >> all solutions, or they can detect somehow if they may have missed >> one)? >> >> And this may raise auxiliary questions, like: >> >> - to what degree can the different solvers be separated? For instance, >> one solver (I'm not sure if it's actually implemented) would use >> decompose() to solve recursively. How would such "recursive solvers" >> look in a hints system? >> >> - of those that are heuristic (not algorithmically complete), can they >> be improved? I'm going through the solvers code and will answer these questions soon. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sympy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sympy@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
