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NAME

       magnus - computational group theory software with GUI

SYNOPSIS

       magnus

DESCRIPTION

       The MAGNUS Computational Group Theory Package is an innovative symbolic
       algebra package providing facilities  for  doing  calculations  in  and
       about  infinite  groups.   Almost  all  symbolic  algebra  systems  are
       oriented toward finite computations  that  are  guaranteed  to  produce
       answers,  given  enough  time  and  resources.   By contrast, MAGNUS is
       concerned with experiments and computations on infinite groups which in
       some  cases  are  known  to  terminate, while in others are known to be
       generally recursively unsolvable.

       Features include:

              A graphical object and method based user interface which is easy
              and  intuitive  to use and naturally reflects the underlying C++
              classes;

              A kernel comprised  of  a  ‘‘session  manager",  to  communicate
              between  the  user interface or front-end and the back-end where
              computations are carried out, and ‘‘computation managers"  which
              direct the computations which may involve several algorithms and
              ‘‘information centers" where information is stored;

              Facilities for performing several  procedures  in  parallel  and
              allocating  resources to each of several simultaneous algorithms
              working on the same problem;

              Enumerators which generate sizable finite approximations to both
              finite  and  infinite  algebraic objects and make it possible to
              carry out searches for answers even when general algorithms  may
              not exist;

              Innovative genetic algorithms;

              A  package manager to ‘‘plug in" more special purpose algorithms
              written by others.

SEE ALSO

       See http://www.grouptheory.org/ for further information.

AUTHOR

       Magnus was written by Dmitri Bormotov <bormotov@rio.sci.ccny.cuny.edu>,
       Gilbert Baumslag, C.F. Miller III, Hamish Short and many others.
       This  manual  page was prepared by Ben Burton <bab@debian.org>, for the
       Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

                                 July 21, 2005