E.1.A About Polymath
Polymath is an easy-to-use numerical computation package that allows students and professionals to use personal computers to solve realistic, computationally intensive chemical reaction engineering problems. Polymath is unique in that the problems are entered just like their mathematical equations, and there is a minimal learning curve. The Polymath software package is uniquely suited for chemical reaction engineering as it is able to solve the following types of problems that arise in CRE:
• Simultaneous linear algebraic equations
• Simultaneous nonlinear algebraic equations
• Simultaneous ordinary differential equations
• Data Regressions (including the following)
• Curve fitting by polynomials and splines
• Multiple linear regression with statistics
• Nonlinear regression with statistics
The most recent version of Polymath allows for the option of solving CRE problems that can also be automatically exported for solution in Excel and MATLAB.
The following special Polymath Web site for software use and updating will be maintained for users of this textbook:
