New Release of Maple Advances Teaching and Research

Maplesoft announced a major new release of its flagship product, Maple 17. The company has introduced enhanced mathematics and a large collection of improvements dedicated to supporting the creation of interactive Maple Math Apps for teaching and learning. These Apps can be used in Maple 17 or through the recently announced Mobius Project initiative from Maplesoft.

New functionality includes advancements in solving a whole new class of differential equations, advancements in solving systems of equations, an extensive new package for working with algebraic groups, new signal processing tools, expanded support for differential geometry, new tools for physics, and more.

Performance has also been enhanced with improvements to frequently called routines and algorithms as well as in the low-level infrastructure of memory management. One example is a new memory manager, which takes advantage of multiple processors to allow computations to run 10% faster on average, with memory-intensive computations running up to 50% faster, the company says.

The update also includes new Math Apps, updates to Smart Popups and Drag-to-Solve technology for Clickable Math interactions, an embedded video component for adding rich multimedia content to applications, and an enhanced Plot Builder to embed interactive plots with parameters controlled by sliders directly into a document

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Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company's website.