An Introduction to Form

Geert Jan van Oldenborgh

The symbolic manipulation program Form is a powerful tool to do large algebraic calculations. It is an easy-to-learn language which is complementary to large programs such as Maple and Mathematica in that not much knowledge is built in, but Form provides you with the means to grind quickly through large formulae. In this introductory course the most-used commands are introduced and useful algorithms are discussed. Many examples illustrate the text.

The course consists of

The text as compressed postscript file.
The source code of the examples and answers to exercises, as tar.gz file.

You can copy this material freely as long as I am mentioned as the author. Form 1 itself (and a manual and tutorial) can be obtained by ftp. Further information about Form 2 is available from CAN, last time I looked it was here.

An Introduction to Form

Geert Jan van Oldenborgh

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