Maple Gets More Powerful, More Intuitive

By DE Editors

On May 16, Maplesoft (Waterloo, Ont.) unwrapped Maple version 10, a major release of its flagship product numeric and symbolic mathematics system and documentation software. Maple 10 shifts the emphasis from creating math to making math more accessible by equipping users with a single tool to perform advanced mathematics and to capture and share analyses. In total, more the 18 major areas of functionality have been upgraded or enhanced.

Maple 10 seamlessly combines numeric and symbolic calculations, explorations, mathematical notation, documentation, buttons and sliders, and graphics and animations that can be shared and reused. Maple 10 enables users to convey information in a familiar way, such as a textbook or technical paper, as well as via executable, self-checking documents that provide the final answer.

Maple 10 also gives engineers the ability to apply units and/or tolerance (error ranges) to any variable or constant. Units and tolerance will be carried through all calculations, allowing engineers to check both the final units (dimensional analysis) and tolerance or degree of uncertainty of the result. Maple 10's easy-to-use MathML Equation Editor lets users create textbook-quality equations in natural mathematical notation, interactively It includes expression templates, a handwriting palette, thousands of mathematical symbols, automatic equation numbering, and so on. Maple now includes a graphing calculator, allowing access to the full power of Maple via a familiar, intuitive interface.

Miscellaneous features include context sensitive menus, automated point and click plot builder, more than 190 task templates and interactive task assistants for fill-in-the-blank problem solving, and a point-and-click ODE (ordinary differential equations) analyzer.

For complete details on Maple 10 go directly to Maplesoft.