Derive was a
computer algebra system
A computer algebra system (CAS) or symbolic algebra system (SAS) is any mathematical software with the ability to manipulate mathematical expressions in a way similar to the traditional manual computations of mathematicians and scientists. The de ...
, developed as a successor to
muMATH
muMATH is a computer algebra system (CAS), which was developed in the late 1970s and early eighties by Albert D. Rich and David Stoutemyer of Soft Warehouse in Honolulu, Hawaii. It was implemented in the muSIMP programming language which was buil ...
by the Soft Warehouse in
Honolulu, Hawaii
Honolulu (; ) is the capital and largest city of the U.S. state of Hawaii, which is in the Pacific Ocean. It is an unincorporated county seat of the consolidated City and County of Honolulu, situated along the southeast coast of the island o ...
, now owned by
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) is an American technology company headquartered in Dallas, Texas, that designs and manufactures semiconductors and various integrated circuits, which it sells to electronics designers and manufacturers globall ...
. Derive was implemented in , also by Soft Warehouse. The first release was in 1988 for
DOS. It was discontinued on June 29, 2007 in favor of the
TI-Nspire CAS
The TI-Nspire is a graphing calculator made by Texas Instruments, which was released in July 2007, notable for featuring a non-QWERTY keyboard and a different key-by-key layout than its predecessors.
Development
The original TI-Nspire ...
. The last and final version is Derive 6.1 for
Windows
Windows is a group of several proprietary graphical operating system families developed and marketed by Microsoft. Each family caters to a certain sector of the computing industry. For example, Windows NT for consumers, Windows Server for serv ...
.
Since Derive required comparably little memory, it was suitable for use on older and smaller machines. It was available for the DOS and Windows platforms and was used also in TI pocket calculators.
Books
*
* Jerry Glynn, ''Exploring Math from Algebra to Calculus with Derive, A Mathematical Assistant'', Mathware Inc, 1992,
* Leon Magiera, ''General Physics Problem Solving With Cas Derive'', Nova Science Pub Inc 2001,
* Vladimir Dyakonov. ''Handbook on application system Derive''. Moscow (Russia) 1996, Phismatlit, 320 p,
* Vladimir Dyakonov. ''Computers algebra systems Derive''. Moscow (Russia) 2002, SOLON-R, 320 p,
See also
*
List of computer algebra systems
The following tables provide a comparison of computer algebra systems (CAS). A CAS is a package comprising a set of algorithms for performing symbolic manipulations on algebraic objects, a language to implement them, and an environment in which to ...
External links
Derive Review at scientific-computing.com Derive Newsletterfrom the International Derive Users Group
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