Maple on Athena (AC-72)

Table of Contents

(Answers to Common Questions About Maple)

Introduction
... Conventions
Starting a Session
Getting Help about Maple
... On-Line Help
... Hardcopy Documentation
... Other Sources of Information
Maple Basics
... Introduction
... Comments and Echoing
... Simple Arithmetic
... Variables, Equations, and Expressions
... Quotes, Names, and Values
... Functions
... Basic Types and Conversions
... Packages and Libraries
... Restoring, Saving and Ending Sessions
Putting Maple to Work
... Simplification
... Some Predefined Symbols
... Summation
... Differentiation and Integration
... Series
... Limits
... Solving Equations
... Assignment and Substitution
... Printing and Plotting Values
Maple Packages
Advanced Maple
... Manipulating Expressions
... Sequences, Ranges, Sets, and Lists of Expressions
... Tables and Arrays
... Maple Initialization
Programming in Maple
... Control Structures
... ... For-While
... ... If
... ... Break
... ... Next
... Procedures
... ... Local Variables
... ... Options
... ... RETURN
... Error Handling
... ... ERROR
... ... lasterror and traperror
... Plotting Functions You Created
... Creating Packages and Libraries
... Debugging