Schoonschip
| Developer(s) | Martinus J. G. Veltman, Netherlands |
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| Initial release | 1967, 47–48 years ago[1] |
| Development status | Discontinued |
| Written in | Assembly language |
| Platform | Atari, Amiga, Sun 3/60, NeXT, and Macintosh computers, with 680x0 CPUs |
| Type | Computer algebra system |
Schoonschip was one of the first computer algebra systems, developed in 1963 by Martinus J. G. Veltman, for use in particle physics.
"Schoonschip" literally means "clean ship" in Dutch. The name was chosen "among others to annoy everybody not Dutch".
Veltman initially developed the program to compute the quadrupole moment of the W boson, the computation of which involved "a monstrous expression involving in the order of 50,000 terms in intermediate stages" [2]
The initial version, dating to December 1963, ran on an IBM 7094 mainframe.[3] In 1966 it was ported to the CDC 6600 mainframe, and later to most of the rest of Control Data's CDC line.[3] In 1983 it was ported to the Motorola 68000 microprocessor, allowing its use on a number of 68000-based systems running variants of Unix.[3]
FORM can be regarded, in a sense, as the successor to Schoonschip.
See also
- Comparison of computer algebra systems
References
- ↑ Computer Algebra in Particle Physics Stefan Weinzierl
- ↑ Nobel Lecture by Martinus J.G. Veltman held on December 8, 1999 "From Weak Interactions to Gravitation", p. 4 of the paper
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Martinus J. G. Veltman and David N. Williams (9 June 1993). "Schoonschip '91".
External links
Further reading
- Close, Frank (2011) The Infinity Puzzle. Oxford University Press. Describes the historical context of and rationale for 'Schoonschip' (Chapter 11: "And Now I Introduce Mr 't Hooft")
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