Table of contents : Introduction....Pages 1-1 Integration — What do we want from the theory?....Pages 2-11 The Euclidean algorithm for Gaussian integers....Pages 12-23 Multi polynomial remainder sequence and its application to linear diophantine equations....Pages 24-35 Towards mechanical solution of the Kahan ellipse problem I....Pages 36-44 Automatically determining symmetries of ordinary differential equations....Pages 45-54 Algebraic computation of the statistics of the solution of some nonlinear stochastic differential equations....Pages 55-67 Characterization of a linear differential system with a regular singularity....Pages 68-77 The Bath Concurrent LISP machine....Pages 78-90 The ecology of LISP or the case for the preservation of the environment....Pages 91-100 The design of Maple: A compact, portable, and powerful computer algebra system....Pages 101-115 LISP compilation viewed as provable semantics preserving program transformation....Pages 116-127 Implementing REDUCE on a microcomputer....Pages 128-136 A note on the complexity of constructing Gröbner-bases....Pages 137-145 Gröbner bases, Gaussian elimination and resolution of systems of algebraic equations....Pages 146-156 The computation of the Hilbert function....Pages 157-167 An algorithm for constructing detaching bases in the ring of polynomials over a field....Pages 168-179 On the problem of Behā Eddīn 'Amūlī and the computation of height functions....Pages 180-193 A procedure for determining algebraic integers of given norm....Pages 194-202 Computation of integral solutions of a special type of systems of quadratic equations....Pages 203-213 Factorisation of sparse polynomials....Pages 214-224 Early detection of true factors in univariate polynomial factorization....Pages 225-235 On the complexity of finding short vectors in integer lattices....Pages 236-244 Factoring polynomials over algebraic number fields....Pages 245-254 The construction of a complete minimal set of contextual normal forms....Pages 255-266 A knowledge-based approach to user-friendliness in symbolic computing....Pages 267-274 Computer algebra and VLSI, prospects for cross fertilization....Pages 275-285 Code optimization of multivariate polynomial schemes: A pragmatic approach....Pages 286-300