Macaulay 2
Summary
Macaulay 2 is a software system devoted to supporting research in
algebraic geometry and commutative algebra, whose development has been
funded by the National Science Foundation.
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only rudimentary information, not officially approved by the authors
Aims and scope
Mathematical Classification
Keywords
- algebraic geometry
- Buchberger algorithm
- chain complexes
- combinatorial functions
- commutative algebra
- computer algebra
- elimination of variables
- fibers of a map between varieties
- Gaussian elimination
- Groebner bases
- Hermite normal form
- Hilbert functions
- ideals
- integral Closure of rings
- maps between rings
- matrices
- modules
- normal forms
- rings
- saturation
- solving systems of polynomial equations
- syzygies
- varieties
- Weyl algebras