A tutorial introduction to Maple

  • Authors:

  • Bruce W. Char;Gregory J. Fee;Keith O. Geddes;Gaston H. Gonnet;Michael B. Monagan

  • Affiliations:

  • Symbolic Computation Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1;Symbolic Computation Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1;Symbolic Computation Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1;Symbolic Computation Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1;Symbolic Computation Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Symbolic Computation
  • Year:
  • 1986

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Abstract

The Maple computer algebra system is described. Brief sample sessions show the user syntax and the mathematical power of the system for performing arithmetic, factoring, simplification, differentiation, integration, summation, solving algebraic equations, solving differential equations, series expansions, and matrix manipulations. Time and space statistics for each sample session show that the Maple system is very efficient in memory space utilisation, as well as in time. The Maple programming language is presented by describing the most commonly used features, using some non-trivial computations to illustrate the language features.