Overview over SINGULAR

SINGULAR is a Computer Algebra System for polynomial computations with special emphasis on the needs of commutative algebra, algebraic geometry, and singularity theory.

Here are some of the most important features of SINGULAR:

• Main computational objects: ideals/modules over very general polynomial rings over various ground fields.
• Large variety of algorithms implemented in kernel (written in C/C++).
• Many more algorithms implemented as SINGULAR libraries.
• Intuitive, C-like programming language.
• Extensive documentation: Manual (info, ps, and html), Publications.
• Available for most hard- and software platforms: Unix (HP-UX, SunOS, Solaris, Linux, AIX), Windows, Macintosh.

SINGULAR is a free software under the GNU General Public Licence.

SINGULAR is developed by the SINGULAR team at the Department of Mathematics of the University of Kaiserslautern under the direction of Wolfram Decker, Gert-Martin Greuel, Gerhard Pfister, and Hans Schönemann.