A Guide to Maple
This "hands-on" book is for people who are interested in immediately putting Maple to work. The reader is provided with a compact, fast and surveyable guide that introduces them to the extensive capabilities of the software. The book is sufficient for standard use of Maple and will provide...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY
Springer New York
1999, 1999
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1999 |
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 1 Basic elements in the use of Maple
- 2 Numbers and algebraic operators
- 3 Names and evaluation 1: mathematical variables
- 4 Elementary calculus
- 5 Names and evaluation 2: applying procedures
- 6 Creating and using mathematical functions
- 7 Graphics
- 8 Taylor or Laurent expansion and limits
- 9 Numerical calculations with Maple
- 10 Manipulating several objects at once
- 11 Substitution and subexpressions
- 12 Manipulating and converting numbers
- 13 Polynomials and rational expressions
- 14 Polynomial equations and factoring polynomials
- 15 Manipulating algebraic expressions
- 16 Solving equations and inequalities in general
- 17 Solving differential equations
- 18 Vectors and matrices
- Appendix A Types, properties, and domains
- A.1 Basic types
- More types
- Selection on type
- Properties, the assume facility
- Derived properties
- Asking for the assumed properties
- Adding properties
- Combining properties
- Properties and assigning
- Properties and formal parameters
- Domains, the Domains package
- Appendix B Names and evaluation 3: some special features
- Changing names, alias
- Finding names used
- Indexed names
- Quotes with table, arrays, vectors, and matrices
- Recovering lost procedures
- Exceptions to the rule of automatic full evaluation
- Appendix C The user interface for text-only versions
- Starting, interrupting, and quitting Maple
- Editing commands
- Pictures
- Maple system messages
- Saving a session and its results
- Appendix D Procedures remembering previous results
- Remember tables of procedures
- Clearing (parts of) the remember table
- An example of side effects of the remember table: infolevel
- Appendix E Control structures
- Procedures
- Searching for causes of odd behavior with trace or printlevel
- Using if ... fi for choices
- Recursion
- Using do od for repeating actions
- An example: checking the results of solve by substituting
- Error messages and warnings
- Catchword index