Re: Looking for Derive workalikes

["Odile Bénassy" <obenassy@magic.fr>]

Doug Loss wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 30 Jan 1999 01:22:11 +0100, "Odile Bénassy" <obenassy@magic.fr> wrote:
> >
> > Derive is well known, and widely used by educators; I think this is
> > because it is simple to install and to use.
> > But on the other hand, a lot of more advanced people (I mean: more
> > advanced in computing issues) say that it is a very limited tool. Most
> > of them like Mathematica, and some, like me, prefer Maple.
> 
> Is there anything along these lines that is logiciels libre?  Or at least reasonably priced?

I don't think so. May be MuPAD.

> > Why don't you ask Stéfane Fermigier,
> > "fermigie@math.jussieu.fr" ?
> > I think he is quite a good specialist of these questions.
> >
> I'm not familiar with him; could you contact him for us and see if he would be interested in joining our discussion?

He is too busy these days, because he has a lot to do with our
government's Ministère de l'Education Nationale. He is a kind of boss
for Linux in France. 
But I suppose he will answer to any simple question.
> 
> > Then: about math and tutorials, you have:
> > - experimenting with geometric things, like Cabri Géomètre and what
> > Hilaire Fernandes does.
> 
> Could you elaborate on Cabri Geometre (sorry for the lack of diacriticals)?  I'm unfamiliar with it.

This is an already ancient software, developped by a french researcher.
I think it was one of the first - maybe the first - software designed
for teaching math.
"Cabri" stands for "cahier de brouillon", meaning "sketch book". The
main idea is  to let the user draw geometric figures, in the plane, with
mobile "points" and "straight lines". (sorry, I've forgotten the right
words). It is especially useful to determine  "geometric places" (sorry
again, I have no math dictionary here, I hope you are able to understand
what I mean, yet).
> 
> > - quizz-robots, like Roman Suzi is doing and myself trying hard, but
> > slowly, because nobody would work with me :-(
> 
> Roman is a nice guy; I can't believe he wouldn't work with you if you asked him politely :-)

Well, thank you for the suggestion. 
If I were to work with Roman Suzi, I would rather call him the boss,
than the opposite way.
Roman, are you there ?

Thank you, Doug, for this message.
-- 
Odile Benassy,
fonctionnaire, Orleans, France
"obenassy@magic.fr"
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