Getting Started with Maxima
About this ebook
Maxima has wonderful flexibility and can do rigorous, robust computation with stunning symbolic and superlative graphical capabilities. It begins with the essential topics like Operating in Maxima, Calculus, Linear Algebra, etc., and then take the user to advanced topics such as numerical methods to solve initial value problems, the students at various levels sieve out important solved examples.
This book is intended primarily as a text for a single or multi-semester course in Mathematics. It is also suitable for undergraduate and graduate level engineering courses and can be used as an excellent reference for professionals and students of Applied Mathematics.
About the author
Dr. Pragati Gautam is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics, Kamala Nehru College, University of Delhi. She has teaching experience of more than 17 years. She has been actively involved in research in the field of Fixed-point theory and has published around 30 research articles in reputed international journals. She has presented research papers in distinguished national and international conferences across several countries. She has contributed five articles on History and Sociology of Mathematics in various journals. She is also the first author of reputed books: Calculus; Numerical Methods; Practical Mathematica; and Analytical Geometry and Applied Algebra.
Ms. Swapnil Verma, an alumna of IIT Delhi, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics, Kamala Nehru College, University of Delhi. She is an active researcher from University of Delhi. She has published 12 research articles in reputed international journals in the field of Fixed-point theory. She has also co-authored book titledPractical MathematicaandAnalytical Geometry and Applied Algebrafor the undergraduate students of various universities of India and abroad.
Ms. Komal Negi has her specialization in knot theory, with a focus on twisted and virtual knots and their invariants. She has published four research papers in SCI and Scopus-indexed journals. Her work explores the combinatorial and algebraic properties of knots in oriented thickened surfaces, contributing new insights to twisted knot theory and twisted virtual braid groups.
