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What is Maple: Product Features

The result of over 30 years of cutting-edge research and development, Maple helps you analyze, explore, visualize, and solve mathematical problems.

With over 5000 functions, Maple offers the breadth, depth, and performance to handle every type of mathematics. Maple’s intuitive interface supports multiple styles of interaction, from Clickable Math™ tools to a sophisticated programming language. Using the smart document environment provided by Maple, you can automatically capture all of your technical knowledge in an electronic form that combines calculations, explanatory text and math, graphics, images, sound, and diagrams

Recently added features & improvements:

  • See what’s new in Maple 2015
  • Learn about new features from previous releases

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    Mathematics High Performance Computing
    Smart Document Environment Connectivity
    Application Areas Education
    Application Development

    Mathematics

    Here are just a few of the many areas of mathematics Maple can do



    Symbolic and Numeric Math

    The Maple computation engine combines high-performance numeric computations with world-leading symbolic capabilities.
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    Comprehensive Mathematics

    Maple contains comprehensive, in-depth coverage of a vast range of mathematical topics.
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    Equation Solving

    Maple can solve a wide range of equations and systems of equations.
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    Units and Dimensions

    You can assign units to your input variables, and the necessary dimensional analysis is performed by Maple to give you the correct unit in your result.
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    Differential Equations

    Maple can solve differential equations problems no other system can handle.
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    Differential Calculus

    Maplesoft offers an extensive collection of products and free resources to support teaching and learning differential calculus.
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    Linear Algebra

    Maple has efficient and comprehensive linear algebra support for both small- and large-scale problems
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    Optimization

    Maple has flexible, powerful tools for solving optimization problems.
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    Group Theory

    The Maple Group Theory package has over 150 commands for constructing groups, examining their properties, performing operations, and visualization
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    Statistics and Process Control

    The Statistics package, like Maple itself, combines the advantages of numerical and symbolic approaches to problem solving.
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    Units and Dimensions

    Maple allows you to perform precision computations with quantities involving tolerances. Tolerances are entered and displayed using standard notation, for example, 1.45 ± 0.05.
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    Smart Document Environment



    Math Equation Editor

    With Maple’s equation editor, you can express complicated mathematical problems easily using standard mathematical notation.
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    Visualization

    Maple provides an extensive suite of visualization tools. Create 2-D and 3-D plots and animations interactively using the Plot Builder Assistant and context-sensitive menus.
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    Plot Annotations and Customizations

    In Maple, you can customize and annotate plots easily using the Plot Builder Assistant, context-sensitive menus, or options in plot commands
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    Context-Sensitive Menus

    In Maple, context-sensitive menus allow you to perform mathematical operations by simply clicking the object and selecting the desired operation from the menu of choices provided.
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    Smart Popups and Drag-to-Solve™

    Smart Popups and Drag-to-Solve™ are part of Maple’s collection of Clickable Math tools, which also include palettes, interactive assistants, context-sensitive menus, tutors, and more. These tools make it easy to learn, teach, and do mathematics with Maple.
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    Interactive Assistants

    Maple includes many interactive assistants that allow you to perform related tasks in a single point-and-click environment.
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    Task Templates

    Task templates provide convenient, fill-in-the-blank problem solving for hundreds of tasks.
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    Embedded Components: Buttons, Sliders, Dials, and More

    In Maple, you can embed interactive components in your document. Using elements such as sliders, buttons, dials, and gauges, your document becomes both a technical report and an easy-to-use application
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    Variable Manager

    The variable manager provides easy access to all variables in your Maple session, allowing you to better manage your documents, quickly assess the state of your computations, and inspect variable values without the need to navigate through the document.
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    MapleCloud Document Exchange

    Easy access to the MapleCloud gives you a revolutionary way to share work with colleagues and students.
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    Live Data Plots

    Live Data Plots help with insight, understanding, and publication of your data, all at the click of a button.
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    Slideshows

    With Maple’s slideshow mode, you can solve problems, document your work, and present your solution, all in a single document and environment.
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    Handwritten Symbol Recognition

    To help you find a symbol that you need from a collection of over 1000 symbols, Maple allows you to use your mouse to sketch the symbol in the Symbol Recognition palette as you would draw it on paper.
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    Exploration Assistant

    The Exploration Assistant allows you to instantly create interactive mini-applications, which can be used to explore the parameters of expressions.
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    Application Areas



    Financial Modeling

    Maple has many tools for advanced financial modeling, as well as accessible tools for personal finance.
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    Statistics and Process Control

    The Statistics package, like Maple itself, combines the advantages of numerical and symbolic approaches to problem solving.
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    Physics

    Maple allows you to study and tackle a large range of problems in computational physics, including problems in classical mechanics, quantum physics, and relativistic field theory.
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    Control Design

    Maple, in conjunction with MapleSim and the MapleSim Control Design Toolbox, provides extensive capabilities for plant modeling and advanced control system design.
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    Application Development



    Code Editor

    The code editor offers many features to assist in writing, reading, and debugging Maple code.
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    Embedded Components: Buttons, Sliders, Dials, and More

    In Maple, you can embed interactive components in your document. Using elements such as sliders, buttons, dials, and gauges, your document becomes both a technical report and an easy-to-use application.
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    Exploration Assistant

    The Exploration Assistant allows you to instantly create interactive mini-applications, which can be used to explore the parameters of expressions.
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    Snippets Palettes

    Maple puts over 30 different palettes at your disposal to help with numerous tasks, including building and editing mathematical expressions, keeping track of variables, and sharing documents with other users.
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    Code Generation

    Maple’s code generation feature allows you to easily deploy your solutions to other programming languages.
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    Maple Player

    The free Maple Player lets you share your interactive Maple applications with people who do not have Maple.
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    Programming

    Maple includes a full featured programming language that can be used to create scripts, programs, and full applications.
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    High Performance Computing



    Automatic Parallelism

    Maple takes advantage of the full processing power of your computer, automatically detecting and using all available processor cores to perform many computations in parallel.
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    Multi-process Programming on a Local Grid

    Maple now allows you to launch multiple compute processes right from the user level without the need for any prior setup or administration.
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    Multithreaded Programming

    Maple is the only technical computing system that allows you to take advantage of multithreading in your own programs. The Maple programming language offers direct access to launching and controlling threads.
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    Grid Computing (Parallel Distributed Computing)

    Distributed systems offer fantastic gains when it comes to solving large-scale problems. By sharing the computation load, you can solve problems too large for a single computer to handle, or solve problems in a fraction of the time it would take with a single computer..
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    CUDA Support

    Maple can take advantage of CUDA-enabled graphics cards to leverage the tremendous computational power of those cards, dramatically speeding up key computations.
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    Connectivity



    Overview of Connectivity Features

    Maple can be easily integrated with other tools using a wide range of connectivity features.
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    MATLAB® Connectivity

    Maple provides several different connectivity options for MATLAB®.
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    CAD Connectivity

    Maple adds important analysis capabilities to CAD systems, giving CAD users the ability to use Maple’s computational power to analyze and optimize designs.
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    Internet Connectivity

    Using Maple, you can connect to data feeds, online databases, and other sources of Internet and intranet information, and incorporate that data automatically into Maple applications.
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    Database Connectivity

    With built-in database connectivity, Maple allows engineers and scientists to quickly develop and deploy powerful applications that combine large enterprise datasets with the state-of-the-art analysis and visualization tools of Maple.
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    Code Generation

    Maple’s code generation feature allows you to easily deploy your solutions to other programming languages.
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    Quandl Data Sets

    Utilize Maple’s tools for statistics and data analysis on Quandl’s extensive collection of data. Over 12 million time series data sets are available directly from within Maple; no extra packages are required.
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    Education



    Tutors

    Maple provides a large collection of built-in, point-and-click learning tools for most key topics in calculus, algebra, and more.

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    Math Apps

    Use interactive features and visualization to explore mathematical concepts

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    Maple Portal for Students

    The Maple Portal for Students acts as a starting point for hundreds of common tasks from mathematics courses, and anticipates the question “How do I …” in Maple.

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    Task Templates

    Task templates provide convenient, fill-in-the-blank problem solving for hundreds of tasks.

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    Smart Popups and Drag-to-Solve™

    Smart Popups and Drag-to-Solve™ are part of Maple’s collection of Clickable Math tools, which also include palettes, interactive assistants, context-sensitive menus, tutors, and more. These tools make it easy to learn, teach, and do mathematics with Maple

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    Context-Sensitive Menus

    In Maple, context-sensitive menus allow you to perform mathematical operations by simply clicking the object and selecting the desired operation from the menu of choices provided.

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    The Möbius Project

    Use Math Apps from your browser, or create and share your own.

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    Student Packages

    Student packages offer focused learning environments in which students can explore and reinforce fundamental concepts in the same way their instructor does in class.

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    Statistics Education

    Maple provides a rich environment for statistics education, helping teachers present and students understand a wide variety of topics from probability and statistics.

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