in reply to Simple Integration using Perl

My first suggestion would be Chapter 16 (Numerical Analysis) of Mastering Algorithms with Perl by Orwant, Hietaniemi, and Macdonald (from O'Reilly).

Beyond that, there are a number of books that include sections on scientific calculations (they escape my memory as I write this), of which at the very least the algorithms might prove helpful.

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Re: Re: Simple Integration using Perl
by theorbtwo (Prior) on Jan 28, 2002 at 20:51 UTC

    I quite agree. If you're trying to do numerical integration in Perl (and if your trying to do quite a number of other things), _Mastering Algorithms with Perl_ is a great book.

    However, doing algebraic integration is rather beyond it's scope. It is, in fact, quite difficult. To quote:

    If it's symbolic computation you're looking for, this chapter won't help -- but Ulrich Pfeifer's Math::ematica module will. Ulrich's module is freely available from CPAN, but requires the not-free Mathematica package to operate. There are, unfortunately, no free symbolic math packages available for Perl. Yet.

    PS: Please excuse my terrible spelling.

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