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Maple Basics

Description

Taken from the Learning Guide for Maple:
Maple is a Symbolic Computation System or Computer Algebra System. Maple manipulates information in a symbolic or algebraic manner. You can obtain exact analytical solutions to many mathematical problems, including integrals, systems of equations, differential equations, and problems in linear algebra. Maple contains a large set of graphics routines for visualizing complicated mathematical information, numerical algorithms for providing estimates and solving problems where exact solutions do not exist, and a complete and comprehensive programming language for developing custom functions and applications.

Availability and Setup

Maple is available on all of the Linux Cluster and IBM pSeries machines.

To run Maple, simply type maple.

Using Maple

The basic syntax is to enter a command such as 2 + 3 followed by a ; (semicolon) and hit Enter such as:

> 2+3;

The command to exit Maple is quit or quit; .

Additional Help/Documentation

For more information on Maple, visit Maplesoft's web site. More specifically, the primary manuals, the Maple Users Guide and the Maple Getting Started Guide are available here.
Document Name: maple
Author/Maintainer: Aaron D. Fuegi (aarondf@bu.edu) and Wayne Gilmore (waygil@bu.edu)
Executable: /usr/local/bin/maple
Keywords: maple, computer algebra
Machines List: IBM p690, IBM p655, Linux Cluster
Related Help Pages: Maple Online Manuals
Created September 15, 2004; Last Revised May 10, 2006; Last Modified 15:30 17-May-06
URL of this document: http://scv.bu.edu/documentation/software-help/mathematics/maple.html
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