waldyrious/symbolicutils.jl

Expression rewriting and simplification

SymbolicUtils.jl

SymbolicUtils.jl provides various utilities for symbolic computing. SymbolicUtils.jl is what one would use to build a Computer Algebra System (CAS). If you're looking for a complete CAS, similar to SymPy or Mathematica, see Symbolics.jl. If you want to build a crazy CAS for your weird Octonian algebras, you've come to the right place.

Symbols in SymbolicUtils carry type information. Operations on them propagate this information. A rule-based rewriting language can be used to find subexpressions that satisfy arbitrary conditions and apply arbitrary transformations on the matches. The library also contains a set of useful simplification rules for expressions of numeric symbols and numbers. These can be remixed and extended for special purposes.

If you are a Julia package develper in need of a rule rewriting system for your own types, have a look at the interfacing guide.

Go to the manual

SymbolicUtils.jl is on the general registry and can be added the usual way:

pkg> add SymbolicUtils

or

julia> using Pkg; Pkg.add("SymbolicUtils")

"I don't want to read your manual, just show me some cool code"

julia> using SymbolicUtils

julia> SymbolicUtils.show_simplified[] = true

julia> @syms x::Real y::Real z::Complex f(::Number)::Real
(x, y, z, f(::Number)::Real)

julia> 2x^2 - y + x^2
(3 * (x ^ 2)) + (-1 * y)

julia> f(sin(x)^2 + cos(x)^2) + z
f(1) + z

julia> r = @rule sinh(im * ~x) => sin(~x)
sinh(im * ~x) => sin(~x)

julia> r(sinh(im * y))
sin(y)

julia> simplify(cos(y)^2 + sinh(im*y)^2, RuleSet([r]))
1

Citations

• The pattern matcher is an adaption of the one by Gerald Jay Sussman (as seen in 6.945 at MIT), his use of symbolic programming in the book SICM inspired this package.
• Rewrite.jl and Simplify.jl by Harrison Grodin also inspired this package.