User talk:Alertrferman

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February 2011
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Macsyma did NOT pioneer symbolic integration based on exploitation of special functions
I have reverted your statement about Macysma and your claim claim that it pioneered solving integrals based on the exploitation of special functions. You provided no reference and the MIT conference would not have published the proceedings of the Maple developers had not the Maple developers themselves pioneered the method. Representatives of the various symbolic systems including those of MACSYMA attended that same conference. At that time, Macsyma could provide solutions to a few integrals whose solutions were in terms of special functions like the Error function - not the same thing and nothing nearly as comprehensive as what the Maple system provided which involved derivatives of special functions with respect to their arguments. The Maple developers had access to MACSYMA and made tests and comparisons.TonyMath (talk) 00:38, 10 February 2011 (UTC)