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## THE PURPOSE OF MATHLAB A mathematical scientist experiments. Today, his test tube and his breadboard are blackboard and paper. He may, it is true, have available a computer, but its role is numerical and its results are delivered not today or tomorrow but the day after the final programming bug is corrected. The computer is not present during the most creative phases of the scientist's labor. The purpose of MATHLAB is to provide the scientist with computational aid of a much more intimate and liberating nature. What sort of aid? The basic goal is to provide facilities for those operations which are mechanical. Among the most common of these are the addition of expressions and equations, the substitution of subexpressions into a larger expression, differentiation, integration, Laplace Transforms, multiplication of matrices, and the solution of simple equations. Although the greater part of a scientist's time is spent on these mechanical pursuits (in fact, an appreciable portion is probably spent in simply checking answers and in the eternal bookkeeping problems of getting minus signs and 2 7r's right), we must keep in mind that most of the tedious computations associated with the

Author

Carl Engelman

Publisher

ACM Press

Published

1965

Language

EN