Re: Re: A Use for Interpretation
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- Subject: [mg85811] Re: [mg85754] Re: A Use for Interpretation
- From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
- Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 04:23:59 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: Mathematics & Statistics, Univ. of Mass./Amherst
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What's "Inert"? Nothing in Documentation Center about it that I see! David Bailey wrote: > Murray Eisenberg wrote: >> Very nice! Some other places where this might be employed are in laws >> of exponents or laws of logs. Or applying trig identities. Or Laplace >> transform. >> >> Ideally, this could be used not just by the teacher, but by the student >> who would demonstrate that she knows the rules by "teaching them to the >> computer". Yet there's a "catch" to that: the Mathematica >> sophistication needed, what with ReplaceRepeated, RuleDelayed, HoldForm, >> ReleaseHold, and FreeQ. Not to mention the "strange" definition of the >> function, like "integrate" here, which must be defined in terms of itself. >> >> David Park wrote: >>> Since Version 6 appeared and I first encountered Interpretation I found it >>> rather difficult to understand what use it might have. The examples in Help >>> seem almost bizarre. >>> >>> Here is one use where it works rather well. Teachers might often be >>> frustrated in demonstrating the behavior of basic function such as D, >>> Integrate or Limit because Mathematica automatically evaluates using its >>> built-in rules. With Interpretation we can define a pseudo routine that >>> displays as the real routine and then apply our own basic transformation >>> rules. Here is an example with a linear breakout of Integrate. >>> >>> integrate[integrand_, var_] := >>> Interpretation[HoldForm[Integrate[integrand, var]], >>> integrate[integrand, var]] >>> >>> We then define rules that breakout sums and constant factors. The rules even >>> display in a nice form. >>> >>> rule1 = integrate[a_ + b_, x_] -> integrate[a, x] + integrate[b, x] >>> rule2 = integrate[a_?(FreeQ[#, x] &) b_, x_] -> a integrate[b, x] >>> >>> Then we can demonstrate how these rules work, performing the actual >>> integration in the last step. >>> >>> integrate[5 a Sin[x] + y Cos[x] + x^2, x] >>> % //. rule1 >>> % //. rule2 >>> % /. Interpretation[a_, b_] :> ReleaseHold[a] >>> > I think there is a better way to do this. I use > Inert[Integrate]Sin[x],{x,0,Pi}] and use a MakeBoxes rule to display the > result as a grey-shaded integral. The advantage of this method is that > it is possible to edit the contents of the inert integral and re-input > the result. > > David Bailey > http://www.dbaileyconsultancy.co.uk > -- Murray Eisenberg murray at math.umass.edu Mathematics & Statistics Dept. Lederle Graduate Research Tower phone 413 549-1020 (H) University of Massachusetts 413 545-2859 (W) 710 North Pleasant Street fax 413 545-1801 Amherst, MA 01003-9305
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- A Use for Interpretation
- From: "David Park" <djmpark@comcast.net>
- Re: A Use for Interpretation
- From: David Bailey <dave@Remove_Thisdbailey.co.uk>
- A Use for Interpretation