An Introduction to Maple

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Department of Mathematics The University of Queensland

Maple is a symbolic computational computer package, used in many academic and research institutions around the world. It is used extensively in a number of subjects offered in the Department of Mathematics at The University of Queensland. Many students will spend a number of tutorial or laboratory sessions in the departmental computing laboratories, running maple.

This document provides an introduction to using maple. It is assumed that you are familiar with using PC hardware (such as keyboards and mice), and with Microsoft Windows. If you are not familiar with PCs or Windows, then it is important for you to seek further help.

This document is logically divided into sections. The introductory section tells you how and where to start and stop maple, and how commands can be entered. Subsequent sections show how to obtain on-line help, describe mathematical constructs, and give information on a number of useful commands.

To help in finding information on specific topics, the document includes a table of contents, a list of figures (which are mostly examples of maple inputs and outputs), and an index of keywords.

Important concepts are summarised as bold text in boxes:

This document includes numerous examples of maple sessions, similar to the one shown below. (Don't worry if you don't understand this example, just look at the general setting out):

Note how the input commands (1+3+5 in this example) and the output (9 in this example) are shown, separated by lines. This is how your maple input and output will look. The best way to use this document is to read the text, and try the examples yourself. Then you can experiment with different inputs.

If you need further information you can ask your tutors, or see one of the references mentioned under Further Reading in Section 8 of this document.

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Peter Adams
Wed Mar 5 09:34:38 EST 1997

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