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Computer algebra

Project Leader(s): 

Postdoctoral fellow: Dr. Rong Xiao, Computer Science, University of Western Ontario

Lead faculty member: Dr. Marc Moreno Maza, Computer Science, University of Western Ontario

Non-academic participants: 

The theoretical and practical aspects of manipulating mathematical expressions on computers are usually referred to as computer algebra or symbolic computation. In this field, calculations are designed to yield exact and complete results, by opposition to numerical analysis which is meant to handle approximate values, potentially producing incomplete results. Exactness and completeness have some significant computational overhead. Computer algebra software is highly demanding in CPU time and memory.