Bug#134668: ITP: magnus -- Computational group theory software with GUI

[Ben Burton <benb@acm.org>]

Package: wnpp
Version: N/A; reported 2002-02-19
Severity: wishlist

* Package name    : magnus
  Version         : 4.1.1-beta
  Upstream Author : Dmitri Bormotov <bormotov@rio.sci.ccny.cuny.edu>,
                    Gilbert Baumslag, C.F. Miller III, Hamish Short
                    and many others.
* URL             : http://zebra.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/web/
* License         : GPL
  Description     : Computational group theory software with GUI

 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.

 MAGNUS features an intuitive graphical user interface, facilities for
 running different algorithms on the same problem in parallel, generation
 of approximations for working on otherwise infeasible problems, genetic
 algorithms and a plug-in package manager.

-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux espresso 2.4.17-686 #2 Sat Dec 22 21:58:49 EST 2001 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C