Number 1, November 1996

ISSN 1385-7940

Number 2 (June 1997) is also available online.

Contents

• Presentation of the SAC Newsletter

• Reports on ongoing European Projects in Computer Algebra

• Educational issues in Computer Algebra

• Scientific Contributions

• Book Reviews

• Presentations of Software Releases

• Reports on Conferences and Workshops

• Announcements

• The SAC Network

Presentation of the SAC Newsletter

• Foreword by A. Cohen (Coordinator of the SAC Network)

• A short presentation

• The printed version now available !

• Call for contributions

• The SAC Newsletter's Editorial Board

Ongoing European Projects in Computer Algebra

• The FRISCO Project by Mike Dewar

• The OpenMath Project by J. Abbott

• The Project TERA by J. Heintz

• CGAL Esprit Project by S. Stifter

Educational issues in Computer Algebra

• CAME: Computer Algebra in Mathematics Education
  by A. Watkins

• Learning Mathematics with the help of Symbolic and Algebraic Computation ?
  by J.-B. Lagrange

Scientific Contributions

• The effective computation of the Gelfand-Kirillov dimension in quantum groups (PostScript)
  by José L. Bueso, José Gómez Torrecillas, Francisco J. Lobillo

• Wester's test suite in MuPAD 1.3 by Paul Zimmermann

• Old mathematics and technology: L' Hopital's weight problem and the TI-92 (PostScript) by Paul Drijvers

• Riaca's Interactive Algebra by Roderik Lindenbergh

Book Reviews

• Ablamowicz R., Lounesto P., Parra J.M.:
  "Clifford Algebras with Numeric and Symbolic Computations"
  Review by Dongming Wang

• Heck A.: "Introduction to Maple (2d edition)"
  Review by S. Verduyn Lunel

• Winkler F.: "Polynomial Algorithms in Computer Algebra"
  Review by J. Rafael Sendra

• Bronstein M.: "Symbolic Integration I - Transcendental Functions"
  Review by J. Davenport

Presentations of Software Releases

• Mathematica 3.0
  by R. Mertig

• CoCoA 3 (PostScript)
  by A. Capani, G. Niesi, L. Robbiano

Reports on Conferences and Workshops

• ADG

• CA Klagenfurt

• DISCO '96

• FRISCO

• IMACS-ACA '96

• ISSAC '96

Announcements

• Conferences and Workshops (INRIA-Sophia)

• Jobs (RISC Linz)

• Special Issues of the Journal of Symbolic Computation

• News from Springer Verlag

• A list of books published in 1996

The SAC Network

• Objectives of the SAC Network

• CAIN Europe: The Computer Algebra Information Network

• The SAC National Coordinators

• Contact Addresses for the SAC Network

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The SAC Newsletter is supported by the HCM Network SAC ("Symbolic and Algebraic Computation")
no. ERBCHRXCT940439 of the European Communities.

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