Author | Monagan, M. B. author |
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Title | Maple V Programming Guide [electronic resource] / by M. B. Monagan, K. O. Geddes, K. M. Heal, G. Labahn, S. M. Vorkoetter |
Imprint | New York, NY : Springer New York, 1998 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2214-9 |
Descript | XI, 379 p. 42 illus. online resource |
1. Introduction -- 1.1 Getting Started -- 1.2 Basic Programming Constructs -- 1.3 Basic Data Structures -- 1.4 Computing with Formulae -- 2. Fundamentals -- 2.1 Evaluation Rules -- 2.2 Nested Procedures -- 2.3 Types -- 2.4 Choosing a Data Structure: Connected Graphs -- 2.5 Remember Tables -- 2.6 Conclusion -- 3. Advanced Programming -- 3.1 Procedures Which Return Procedures -- 3.2 When Local Variables Leave Home -- 3.3 Interactive Input -- 3.4 Extending Maple -- 3.5 Writing Your Own Packages -- 3.6 Conclusion -- 4. The Maple Language -- 4.1 Language Elements -- 4.2 Escape Characters -- 4.3 Statements -- 4.4 Expressions -- 4.5 Useful Looping Constructs -- 4.6 Substitution -- 4.7 Conclusion -- 5. Procedures -- 5.1 Procedure Definitions -- 5.2 Parameter Passing -- 5.3 Local and Global Variables -- 5.4 Procedure Options and the Description Field -- 5.5 The Value Returned by a Procedure -- 5.6 The Procedure Object -- 5.7 Explorations -- 5.8 Conclusion -- 6. Debugging Maple Programs -- 6.1 A Tutorial Example -- 6.2 Invoking the Debugger -- 6.3 Examining and Changing the State of the System -- 6.4 Controlling Execution -- 6.5 Restrictions -- 7. Numerical Programming in Maple -- 7.1 The Basics of evalf -- 7.2 Hardware Floating-Point Numbers -- 7.3 Floating-Point Models in Maple -- 7.4 Extending the evalf Command -- 7.5 Using the Matlab Package -- 7.6 Conclusion -- 8. Programming with Maple Graphics -- 8.1 Basic Plot Functions -- 8.2 Programming with Plotting Library Functions -- 8.3 Mapleโs Plotting Data Structures -- 8.4 Programming with Plot Data Structures -- 8.5 Programming with the plottools Package -- 8.6 Example: Vector Field Plots -- 8.7 Generating Grids of Points -- 8.8 Animation -- 8.9 Programming with Color -- 8.10 Conclusion -- 9. Input and Output -- 9.1 A Tutorial Example -- 9.2 File Types and Modes -- 9.3 File Descriptors versus File Names -- 9.4 File Manipulation Commands -- 9.5 Input Commands -- 9.6 Output Commands -- 9.7 Conversion Commands -- 9.8 A Detailed Example -- 9.9 Notes to C Programmers -- 9.10 Conclusion