Free math needs free software
"Aaron S. Hawley" <[email protected]> Fri, 15 Apr 2005 15:00:19 -0400 (EDT)
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| Organization | University of Vermont |
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>From TeXmacs philosophy page:
"As a mathematician, I am deeply convinced that only free programs are
acceptable from a scientific point of view. I see two main reasons for
this:
* "A result computed by a 'mathematical' system, whose source code is
not public, can not be accepted as part of a mathematical proof.
* "Just as a mathematician should be able to build theorems on top of
other theorems, it should be possible to freely modify and release
algorithms of mathematical software.