Mathematics Used in Computer Algebra Systems
- Symbolic integration - Risch algorithm
- Hypergeometric summation - Gosper's algorithm
- Limit computation - Gruntz's algorithm
- Polynomial factorization. Over finite fields, Berlekamp's algorithm or Cantor–Zassenhaus algorithm is used.
- Greatest common divisor - Euclidean algorithm
- Gaussian elimination
- Gröbner basis - Buchberger's algorithm; generalization of Euclidean algorithm and Gaussian elimination
- Padé approximant
- Schwartz–Zippel lemma and testing polynomial identities
- Chinese remainder theorem
- Diophantine equations
- Quantifier elimination over real numbers - Tarski's method/Cylindrical algebraic decomposition
- Landau's algorithm
- Derivatives of elementary and special functions (e.g. see Incomplete Gamma function)
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