A Survey of Interactive Graphical Systems for Mathematics

Abstract

Existing and proposed systems for performing interactive mathe- matics are surveyed with special attention to those systems with graph- ical output. The systems are grouped as general purpose, special purpose and other systems of interest. The solution of a least squares data-fitting problem by the various general purpose systems is then compared to the solution of the same problemby PEG, a special pur- pose system written at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center for interactive least squares data-fitting. A summary includes a discus- sion of many of the references that appear in the fairly comprehensive bibliography.