AuthorHeck, Andrรฉ. author
TitleIntroduction to Maple [electronic resource] / by Andrรฉ Heck
ImprintNew York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2003
Edition Third Edition
Connect tohttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0023-6
Descript XVI, 828 p. online resource

SUMMARY

The first two editions of this book have been very well received by the comยญ munity, but so many revisions ofthe Maple system have occurred since then that simply reprinting the out-of-stock book would not do anymore. A maยญ jor revision of the book was inevitable, too. The wording "major revision" must be taken seriously because I not only corrected typographical errors, rephrased text fragments, and updated many examples, but I also rewrote complete chapters and added new material. In particular, the chapter on differential equations now discusses Liesymmetry methods, partial differenยญ tial equations, and numerical methods. Linear algebra is based throughout the book on the packages LinearAlgebra and VectorCalculus, which reยญ place the deprecated package linalg. Maple users are strongly advised to do their work with the new packages. The chapter on simplification has been updated and expanded; it discusses the use of assumptions in more detail now. Last, but not least, a new chapter on Grabner basis theory and the Groebner package in Maple has been added to the book. It includes many applications of Grabner basis theory. Many of the Maple sessions have been rewritten so that they comply with the most recent version of Maple. As a result of all this work, hardly any section in the book has been left untouched. vi Preface to the Third Edition From the Preface of the Second Edition The first edition ofthis book has been very wellreceived by the community


CONTENT

1 Introduction to Computer Algebra -- 2 The First Steps: Calculus on Numbers -- 3 Variables and Names -- 4 Getting Around with Maple -- 5 Polynomials and Rational Functions -- 6 Internal Data Representation and Substitution -- 7 Manipulation of Polynomials and Rational Expressions -- 8 Functions -- 9 Differentiation -- 10 Integration and Summation -- 11 Series, Approximation, and Limits -- 12 Composite Data Types -- 13 The Assume Facility -- 14 Simplification -- 15 Graphics -- 16 Solving Equations -- 17 Differential Equations -- 18 The LinearAlgebra Package -- 19 Linear Algebra: Applications -- 20 A Birdโs-Eye View of Grobner Bases -- References


SUBJECT

  1. Mathematics
  2. Computer science -- Mathematics
  3. Computer graphics
  4. Computer mathematics
  5. Mathematics
  6. Computational Mathematics and Numerical Analysis
  7. Mathematics of Computing
  8. Computer Graphics