Macaulay2Doc -- Macaulay2 documentation
Description
Macaulay2 is a software system devoted to supporting research in algebraic geometry and commutative algebra, developed with funding from the National Science Foundation. We are eager to help new users get started with it.
Version
This documentation describes version 1.24.11 of Macaulay2.
For the programmer
The object Macaulay2Doc is a package.
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Preface
For the New User
Mathematical Objects
- rings
- ideals
- matrices
- substitution and maps between rings
- modules
- chain complexes
- Varieties -- affine and projective algebraic geometry
- Gröbner bases
Some Mathematical Computations
- normal forms
- elimination of variables
- IntegralClosure -- routines for integral closure of affine domains and ideals
- primaryDecomposition -- irredundant primary decomposition of an ideal
- combinatorial functions
The Macaulay2 Language
Packages
Appendix
- changes to Macaulay2, by version
- mathematical examples
- basic commutative algebra
- replacements for commands and scripts from Macaulay
- how Macaulay2 finds its files