Symbolic Computation Using Tree-Structured Mathematical Expressions

摘要

A method for performing symbolic computations on a mathematical expression. The mathematical expression may be converted to a tree structure having one or more parent nodes and one or more child nodes. Each parent node may be a mathematical operation. Each child node may be a mathematical expression on which the mathematical operation is performed in a specified order. Each child node may be in a hierarchical relationship to one of the parent nodes. The parent nodes, the child nodes or both may be manipulated to perform a first symbolic computation on the mathematical expression.