Singular version 3.0 University of Kaiserslautern Department of Mathematics Centre for Computer Algebra Authors: G.-M. Greuel, G. Pfister, H. Schoenemann (C) 1986-2005 All Rights Reserved README FILE FOR SINGULAR KERNEL =============================== This directory contains the source files for the Singular interpreter and the following subdirectories: 'LIB' -- contains Singular libraries written in Singular's programming language See the following files in this directory 'INSTALL' -- for information on how to install Singular 'COPYING' -- for copying and license information See below for an overview of Singular, and for distribution and support information. If you receive this file as part of a complete Singular distribution, see also the files contained in the top directory of the full Singular distribution. Overview of Singular ==================== Singular is a special-purpose computer algebra system for commutative algebra and algebraic geometry. The main features of Singular are: * Computations in very general rings (polynomial rings, localizations of rings at a prime ideal, tensor products of rings) over many ground fields (rational numbers, mod p numbers, Galois fields, transcendental/algebraic extensions) and monomial orderings (all standard monomial orderings, including matrix orderings) * Very fast standard (resp. Groebner) bases computations * Polynomial factorization, resultant, and gcd computations * Large variety of implemented related algorithm: FGLM, Hilbert-driven, Factorizing Buchberger; Minimal resolutions, Primary decomposition; Usual ideal theoretic operations; standard combinatorial algorithms. * Efficient and flexible communication links based on the MP protocol and library * Easy-to-use, command-driven user-interface * Intuitive, C-like programming language * Extensive libraries of procedures, written in Singular's programming language * Written in C/C++. Available as source and binary for some hard- and software platforms (including most Un*x variants, MS-DOG, MacOS) Distribution of Singular ======================== The newest version of Singular is always available by anonymous ftp from http://www.singular.uni-kl.de Binary versions of Singular for common hard- and software platforms are available. Architecture - independent files (such as libraries written in the Singular programming language, and the Singular documentation) are distributed as Singular--share.tar.gz. Singular's terminal i/o is most convenient if it is linked with the GNU readline library. The GMP library and the readline library is available at your local GNU mirrors. You have to have these library already installed, before Singular can be linked with them. The MP library library is available from mcs.kent.edu:/pub/MP/ For further information on MP, see also http://symbolicnet.mcs.kent.edu/areas/protocols/mp.html The NTL library (Victor Shoup) is recommended. It is avavailable from http://www.shoup.net. The factory and libfac library are available from ftp://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de:/pub/Math/Singular/src More information about Singular: Comments, Questions, Bug Reports ================================================================= More and up-to-date information about Singular is always available from http://www.singular.uni-kl.de We very much welcome any comments, questions, and bug reports. Please contact us at singular@mathematik.uni-kl.de GOOD LUCK and ENJOY! Your Singular team.