MA357: Getting and Using GP/Pari

GP is a "calculator" (i.e., an interactive, command-line program that can compute things) based on the PARI library (which is a programming interface for doing serious mathematics). It is specifically designed for computations related to number theory, but it can in fact do many more things.

I've put links to the program and to various sources of documentation below. But you can learn by playing with the software, too. I've put some sample computations below.

The PARI/GP home page is the place to go for the latest versions, source, documentation, and so on. There is a self-installing distribution for Windows. For the Mac, see the information on the downloads page; you can either just build it yourself or get GP from the Fink distribution.

Documentation:

Some sample computations I put together to show you what the program can do.
User's guide: all you need to know and more.
Tutorial: look at this one first!
Reference card: nice to print out and carry with you.

Fernando Q. Gouvêa ---- fqgouvea@colby.edu