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1983 Greuel/Pfister: Existence of complete intersection singularities which are not quasi-homogeneous, but Poincare-complex exact?
1983 Neuendorf (geb. Schemmel)/Pfister: Implementation of the Gröbner
basis-algorithm BuchMora for ZX-Spectrum in Basic
1987 Pfister et al (Humboldt Uni Berlin): Buchmora for Atari in Modula-2
1989 Buchmora renamed to SINGULAR ; Developed jointly by groups from Berlin (Pfister) and Kaiserslautern (Greuel)
1990 Ported to Unix; First user manual
1993 Rewritten in C; SINGULAR programming language -- Libraries;
1996 Multivariate polynomial factorization; gcd
2001 SINGULAR release 2.0
2002 Book "A SINGULAR Introduction to Commutative Algebra" (by G.-M. Greuel and G. Pfister, with contributions by O. Bachmann, C. Lossen and H. Schönemann). The book includes a CD containing a distribution of SINGULAR version 2-0-3.

Supported by: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Stiftung Rheinland-Pfalz für Innovation, Volkswagen Foundation

SINGULAR is free software

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