Discovering Mathematics with Magma: Reducing the Abstract to the Concrete

The appearance of this volume celebrates the first decade of Magma, a new computer algebra system launched at the First Magma Conference on Com- tational Algebra held at Queen Mary and Westfield College, London, August 1993. This book introduces the reader to the role Magma plays in advanced mathematical research. Each paper examines how the computer can be used to gain insight into either a single problem or a small group of closely related problems. The intention is to present sufficient ...