Abstract
Weyl is a new type of computer algebra substrate that extends an existing, object oriented programming language with symbolic computing mechanisms. Rather than layering a new language on top of an existing one, Weyl behaves like a powerful subroutine library, but takes heavy advantage of the ability to overload primitive arithmetic operations in the base language. In addition to the usual objects manipulated in computer algebra systems (polynomial, rational functions, matrices, etc.), domains (e.g., Z, Q[x, y, z]) are also first class objects in Weyl.
This research was supported in part by the Advanced Research Projects Agency of the Department of Defense under ONR Contract N00014-92-J-1989, by ONR Contract N00014-92-J-1839, NSF Contract IRI-9006137 and in part by the U.S. Army Research Office through the Mathematical Science Institute of Cornell University.
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Zippel, R. (1993). The weyl computer algebra substrate. In: Miola, A. (eds) Design and Implementation of Symbolic Computation Systems. DISCO 1993. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 722. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0013185
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