diff --git a/books/bookvol0.pamphlet b/books/bookvol0.pamphlet index 799e4eb..23eb047 100644 --- a/books/bookvol0.pamphlet +++ b/books/bookvol0.pamphlet @@ -141,6 +141,28 @@ David V. Chudnovsky \hfill Gregory V. Chudnovsky \vfill \newpage \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Contributors} + +The field of Computational Mathematics is here to stay as it is +the collision of computers and mathematics, both of which will +continue. As a field, we need to develop a sense of history. + +Computational Mathematics is, historically speaking, quite a young +field dating as it does from the 1960s. We have access to some of the +source code from these systems. That source code forms the ``Newton's +notebooks'' of the field. Some of the source codes for these +influential systems disappeared with the company, such as Derive and +Macsyma. Some, like Maple and Mathematica, are commercial and it is +not clear if the source code will survive. Others, like Reduce, were +publicly released but are no longer maintained. Axiom is, on all +counts, an exception. + +Axiom is quite old, unlike most open source software. +In fact, old enough to outlive the original IBM authors. +So it is with this sense of history, made by real people, +that we record the obituaries of the original project members. + +May they rest in peace. + \addcontentsline{toc}{section}{Obituary -- Richard Dimick Jenks} \includegraphics[scale=0.75]{ps/jenks.eps} \begin{verbatim} @@ -196,7 +218,7 @@ David V. Chudnovsky \hfill Gregory V. Chudnovsky | Axiom product. There is no rival to this powerful environment in | | its scope and, most importantly, in its structure and organization. | | Axiom was recently made available as free software. | -| See http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/axiom. | +| See http://axiom-developer.org | | | | Dick was active in service to the computer algebra community as | | well. Here are some highlights. He served as Chair of ACM SIGSAM | diff --git a/changelog b/changelog index 8045dbd..550613a 100644 --- a/changelog +++ b/changelog @@ -1,3 +1,5 @@ +20140928 tpd src/axiom-website/patches.html 20140928.01.tpd.patch +20140928 tpd books/bookvol0.pamphlet add contributor preamble 20140927 tpd src/axiom-website/patches.html 20140927.02.tpd.patch 20140927 tpd books/bookvol10.4 document Sylvester matrix 20140927 tpd src/axiom-website/patches.html 20140927.01.tpd.patch diff --git a/patch b/patch index fc3c90a..cde8266 100644 --- a/patch +++ b/patch @@ -1,4 +1,3 @@ -books/bookvol10.4 document Sylvester matrix +books/bookvol0.pamphlet add contributor preamble -add inline documentation on the Sylvester matrix and its role in -computing the resultant. +Explain the reason for obituaries. diff --git a/src/axiom-website/patches.html b/src/axiom-website/patches.html index a3dfefc..1130efe 100644 --- a/src/axiom-website/patches.html +++ b/src/axiom-website/patches.html @@ -4656,6 +4656,8 @@ books/bookvolbib add authors to index
books/bookvol0 add obits for Bronstein, O'Connor
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