# Introduction to Maxima

Maxima is a computer program for doing mathematical calculations, symbolic manipulations, numerical computations and graphics. Procedures can be programmed and then run by Maxima to do complex tasks. Much of the syntax for other computer algebra systems such as Maple was copied from Maxima.

## Sections

#### 1. Maxima Primer

#### 2. Examples

#### 3. Demos

#### 4. Plots

## Project and documentation links

The Help menu in Xmaxima gives you access to the following documents:

- Maxima reference manual
- Xmaxima reference manual
- Maxima Website, https://maxima.sourceforge.io
- Maxima project page, https://sourceforge.net/projects/maxima