Maple V

1. Interactive Use of Maple.- 1.1 The Worksheet Interface.- 1.2 Tutorial 1: Solving Problems.- 1.4 Tutorial 3: Documenting Your Work.- 1.5 Tutorial 4: Multiple Worksheets.- 1.6 Tutorial 5: Getting Help.- 1.7 Conclusion.- 2. Mathematics with Maple: the Basics.- 2.1 Introduction.- 2.2 Numerical Computations.- 2.3 Basic Symbolic Computations.- 2.4 Assigning Names to Expressions.- 2.5 More Basic Types of Maple Objects.- 2.6 Expression Manipulation.- 2.7 Conclusion.- 3. Finding Solutions.- 3.1 Simple solve.- 3.2 Solving Numerically: fsolve.- 3.3 Other Solvers.- 3.4 Polynomials.- 3.5 Calculus.- 3.6 Differential Equations: dsolve.- 3.7 The Organization of Maple.- 3.8 The Maple Packages.- 3.9 Conclusion.- 4. Graphics.- 4.1 Graphing in Two Dimensions.- 4.2 Graphing in Three Dimensions.- 4.3 Animation.- 4.4 Annotating Plots.- 4.5 Composite Plots.- 4.6 Special Types of Plots.- 4.7 Manipulating Graphical Objects.- 4.8 Conclusion.- 5. Evaluation and Simplification.- 5.1 Mathematical Manipulations.- 5.2 The Assume Facility.- 5.3 Structural Manipulations.- 5.4 Evaluation Rules.- 5.5 Conclusion.- 6. Examples from Calculus.- 6.1 Introductory Calculus.- 6.2 Ordinary Differential Equations.- 6.3 Partial Differential Equations.- 6.4 Conclusion.- 7. Input and Output.- 7.1 Reading Files.- 7.2 Writing Data to a File.- 7.3 Exporting Whole Worksheets.- 7.4 Printing Graphics.- 7.5 Conclusion.

Maple V Release 5 is a system for symbolic mathematical computation, designed for both high school computing and university mathematics. This book is the fully revised introductory documentation for Release 5.