Maple

Maple is a program designed to help you to plot graphs and do computations, both numeric and symbolic. See the first three items below for a quick introduction.

Making a graph | Solving an equation | More examples | Help

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Introduction to Maple in the Lab: how to get started using Maple on the lab machines; includes information on saving and printing as well as some examples of the most frequently used commands.

Demo: how to use Maple to find the equilibrium temperature of a thin metal plate and to study simple models in population biology.

Availability

Maple Version V.3 is available at the University Bookstore (581-4776) for Macs and PC's for $99. It is also available in various labs around campus:

The Marriott Library. 85 Mac's equipped with Maple. Go to third level, northeast corner. 581-6494
The Mathematics Department labs. 50 Unix workstations in Building 129, a permanent temporary structure. 581-3982

References

Introduction to using Maple on the undergrad lab Unix machines.
Multivariable Mathematics with Maple contains an introduction to using Maple in undergraduate math courses

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