Symbolic computations in science and engineering

  • Authors:
  • Marcin Kaminski

  • Affiliations:
  • Chair of Mechanics of Materials, Technical University of Łódz, Łódz, Poland

  • Venue:
  • ICCOMP'08 Proceedings of the 12th WSEAS international conference on Computers
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

A presentation of the modern issues related to the symbolic computing is contained here with the detailed discussion of its application to the education of various scientific and engineering academic disciplines. As it is shown on the example of the MAPLE system, symbolic computational environments play the very important role in supporting the lectures and the classes in all the computer labs. Those environments may be very useful in teaching basic natural sciences in all those cases, when some algebraic or differential equations appear, must be solved and their results should be precisely discussed. The application of the MAPLE and similar computer systems in the engineering education seems to be unquestionable now and some examples are contained here to show how the professors may improve their lectures and make them very interesting and exciting. The key feature offered by the symbolic computing is the opportunity to discover the knowledge, which the students may do by themselves, when they are specifically leaded by the instructors. The future expansion of the symbolic environment is drawn here together with the very related educational aspects all we have during the classes in the computer labs.