Learning Maple

• A mathematical word processor which can produce
  • Typewriter text
  • Input for Microsoft Word
  • LaTeX source code for mathematical typesetting
  • HTML For webpages
  • Rudimentary translations to C and FORTRAN code
  • Spreadsheets that import and export Excel files

• A graphing calculator with arbitrary precision decimal calculations

• A calculator that does exact arithmetic without having to resort to decimals

• An engine to do symbolic algebra, trigonometry, calculus, linear algebra, etc.

• A full fledged programming language, with loops, subroutines, etc.

• A contributed collection of special routines created by scientists and engineers in many research areas

• The symbolic computation engine for MatLab and an interface for some MatLab routines

• A front end to numerical routines produced by the NAG Numerical Algorithms Group, Ltd.

However, in this course, we will exploit only a few of these capabilities.

Maple commands that are useful in this course: