YES, computers can do the hard stuff.... most of it, anyway.
There's a company called Wolfram with a nice piece of software called Mathematica that does just that - solve symbolic equations, among a bunch of other stuff.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematica
You just need to tell it to do what you want it to do.
There's a guy that claims kids shouldn't need to learn boring old calculus, they should just learn how to use the tool that does the calculus for them:
http://www.ted.com/talks/conrad_wolfram_...anguage=en
And here's the big man himself:
http://www.ted.com/talks/stephen_wolfram...anguage=en
There's a company called Wolfram with a nice piece of software called Mathematica that does just that - solve symbolic equations, among a bunch of other stuff.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematica
You just need to tell it to do what you want it to do.
There's a guy that claims kids shouldn't need to learn boring old calculus, they should just learn how to use the tool that does the calculus for them:
http://www.ted.com/talks/conrad_wolfram_...anguage=en
And here's the big man himself:
http://www.ted.com/talks/stephen_wolfram...anguage=en
