This “hands-on” book is for people who are interested in immediately putting Maple to work. The reader is provided with a compact, fast and surveyable guide that introduces them to the extensive capabilities of the software. The book is sufficient for standard use of Maple and will provide techniques for extending Maple for more specialized work. The author discusses the reliability of results systematically and presents ways of testing questionable results. The book allows a reader to become a user almost immediately and helps him/her to grow gradually to a broader and more proficient use. As a consequence, some subjects are dealt with in an introductory way early in the book, with references to a more detailed discussion later on.

Fortran

Maple

Mathematica

calculus

linear optimization

Part I: Basic Maple Commands

1. Running Maple

2. Maple Input Modes

3. Calculator Features

4. Variables and Functions

5. Computer Algebra

6. Working with Equations

7. Sets, Lists, and Sequences

8. Getting Help and Loading Packages

Part II: Drawing Pictures in Maple

9. Making 2‑D Pictures

10. Plotting Parametric Curves, Line Segments, and Points

11. Polar and Implicit Plots

Part III: Maple for One‑Variable Calculus

12. Limits and Derivatives

13. Integration

14. Series and Taylor Series

15. Analyzing Differential Equations

Part IV: Maple for Multivariable Calculus

16. Making Graphs in Space

17. Level Curves and Level Surfaces

18. Partial Differentiation and Multiple Integration

Part V: Maple for Linear Algebra and Vector Calculus

19. Matrices and Vectors

20. Parametric Curves and Surfaces in Space

21. Vector Fields

Part VI: Using Maple in Statistics

22. Basic Statistics on a Data Sample

23. Curve Fitting

Part VII: Advanced Features of Maple

24. Animation

25. More About Lists

26. Random Numbers and Simulation

• Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

  Ernic Kamerich

Book Title
A Guide to Maple

Authors
Ernic Kamerich

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8556-9

Copyright Information
Springer Science+Business Media New York 1999

Hardcover ISBN
978-0-387-94116-5
Published: 21 December 1998

Softcover ISBN
978-1-4612-6436-1
Published: 08 September 2012

eBook ISBN
978-1-4419-8556-9
Published: 27 June 2011

Edition Number
1

Number of Pages
XXIII, 325

Topics
Applications of Mathematics