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History of
SINGULAR
1984
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Greuel/Pfister: Existence of complete intersection singularities
which are not quasi-homogeneous, but Poincare-complex exact?
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1987
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Pfister et al (Humboldt Uni Berlin): Buchmora for Atari in
Modula-2: Existence shown.
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1989
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Buchmora renamed to
SINGULAR
; Developed
jointly by groups from Berlin (Pfister) and Kaiserslautern (Greuel)
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1990
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Ported to Unix; First user manual
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1993
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Rewritten in C;
SINGULAR
programming language -- Libraries;
Faster than Macaulay
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1996
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Multivariate polynomial factorization; gcd
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1997
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SINGULAR
release 1.0 (multivariate polynomial factorization;
gcd, syzygies, resolutions, communication links)
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1998
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SINGULAR
release 1.2 (faster, primary decomposition, normalization)
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1999
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SINGULAR
release 1.4
(much faster, numerical data types and algorithms,
monodromy, moduli of space curves, debugger)
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2001
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SINGULAR
release 2.0
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Supported by: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft,
Stiftung Rheinland-Pfalz für Innovation, Volkswagen Foundation
SINGULAR
is free software
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