Remove unused files in the "m2" directory

[d-torrance]

These were mentioned in https://github.com/Macaulay2/M2/issues/1213#issuecomment-666092551

[mahrud]

I don't think these files should be removed without a review. In particular, version.m2.in should be used, not removed.

[d-torrance]

Converting to a draft for now -- I'll restore version.m2.in and make sure that the contents of overview.m2 are present in Macaulay2Doc.

[d-torrance]

Documenting my progress as I work through overview.m2:

overview.m2 node	Macaulay2Doc node
rings	rings
basic rings	basic rings of numbers
polynomial rings	polynomial rings (missing quite a few things that we restore)
polynomial rings with other monomial orderings	monomial orderings and its subnodes (the overview.m2 node mentions that it "will be completely redone soon", and it obviously was, but there were some good introductory examples that were removed, so we restore them)
manipulating polynomials	manipulating polynomials (with some parts split out into factoring polynomials)
multi-graded polynomial rings	graded and multigraded polynomial rings
maps between rings	split into the subnodes of substitution and maps between rings
quotient rings	quotient rings
finite fields	finite fields
fraction fields	fraction fields
tensor products of rings	tensor products of rings
exterior algebras	exterior algebras
symmetric algebras	symmetric algebras
Weyl algebras	Weyl algebras
associative algebras	associative algebras (which still says "eventually we will implement...", so we add a link to the AssociativeAlgebras package)
algebraic varieties	missing, and functionality has been moved to the Varieties package. Its documentation mentions a nonexistent varieties node, so we move the algebraic varieties content there
matrices--old	matrices
making matrices	inputting a matrix, basic arithmetic of matrices, concatenating matrices, extracting information about a matrix -- we restore some of the missing information
making random matrices	random and generic matrices
making generic matrices	random and generic matrices
displaying matrices	format and display of matrices in Macaulay2
determinants	determinants and minors, exterior power of a matrix -- we restore some of the missing information
manipulating matrices	Matrix
computations	just links to some nodes -- computing resolutions is a subnode of free resolutions of modules, computing Groebner bases is a subnode of Groebner bases, which is a subnode of the top node, and computing syzygies currently isn't a subnode of anything
Groebner bases	Gröbner bases and its subnodes

[mahrud]

I just reviewed this:

[mahrud]

@d-torrance if you get around to it, #1091 also has some unused files.

[DanGrayson]

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@d-torrance https://github.com/d-torrance if you get around to it, #1091 https://github.com/Macaulay2/M2/issues/1091 also has some unused files.

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