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Subject: new newsgroup for symbolic algebra
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A new newsgroup, net.math.symbolic has just been created.  This group will
deal with all aspects of symbolic algebra: algorithms, applications and the
various systems and languages available.

The group is for those:
  a) doing research in the area of symbolic algebra
  b) those who may need to apply symbolic algebra systems to an application area
  c) systems personnel who must support symbolic algebra systems for their
users

For those who are not familiar with the term, symbolic algebra, these systems
allow a user to perform analytical differentiation, integration, factoring,
simplification, etc. automatically with the computer.  For example such a system
would be able to integrate x**2+x**3 and give the result x**3/3+x**4/4.
It will do automatically most if not all integrations that are done by hand
in a calculus course.

For more information see the welcome message which has more explanations
as well as a bibliography and a list of available systems.