The Maple book. (©2002)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Frank Garvan.
• Other Names: Garvan, Frank (Frank G.), 1955-; Garvan, Frank (Frank G.), 1955-
• Contents: GETTING STARTED; Starting a MAPLE Session; Different Versions of MAPLE; Basic Syntax; Editing Mistakes; Help; A Sample Session and Context Menus; Palettes; Spreadsheets; Quitting MAPLE; MAPLE AS A CALCULATOR; Exact Arithmetic and Basic Functions; Floating-Point Arithmetic; HIGH SCHOOL ALGEBRA; Polynomials and Rational Functions; Equations; Fun with Integers; Unit Conversion; Trigonometry; DATA TYPES; Sequences; Sets; Lists; Tables; Arrays; Data Conversions; Other Data Types; CALCULUS; Defining Functions; Composition of Functions; Summation and Product; Limits; Differentiation; Extrema; Integration; Taylor and Series Expansions; The Student Package; GRAPHICS; 2-Dimensional Plotting; 3-Dimensional Plotting; Animation; MAPLE PROGRAMMING; The MAPLE Procedure; Conditional Statements; The "for" loop; Type Declaration; The "while" Loop; Recursive Procedures; Explicit Return; Error Statement; args and nargs; Input and Output; Benerating C and Fortran Code; Viewing Built-in MAPLE Code; The MAPLE Interactive Debugger; Writing your own Packages; Answers to Programming Exercises; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; Solving Ordinary Differential Equations; First-Order Differential Equation; Numerical Solutions; Second- and Higher-Order Des; Series Solutions; The Laplace Transform; The Detools Package; Solving Systems of Ordinary Differential Equations; Plotting Solutions to Ordinary Differential Equations; Partial Differential Equations; LINEAR ALGEBRA; Vectors, Arrays, and Matrices; Matrix Context Menu; Elementary Row and Colum Operations; Gaussian Elimination; Inverses, Determinants, Minors, and the Adjoint; Special Matrices and Vectors; Systems of Linear Equations; Row Space, Column Space, and Nullspace; Eigenvectors and Diagonalization; Jordan Form; Inner Products and Vector and Matrix Norms; Least Squares Problems; QR-Factorization and the Gram-Schmidt Process; LU-Factorization; Other Linear Algebra Functions; The linalg Package; MULTIVARIABLE AND VECTOR CALCULUS; Vectors; Lines and Planes; Vector-Valued Functions; The Gradient and Directional Derivatives; Extrema; Multiple Integrals; Vector Field; Line Integrals; Green's Theorem; Surface Integrals; COMPLEX ANALYSIS; Arithmetic of Complex Numbers; Polar Form; nth Roots; The Cauchy-Riemann Equations and Harmonic Functions; Elementary Functions; Conformal Mapping; Taylor Series and Laurent Series; Contour Integrals; Residues and Poles; OPENING, SAVING, AND EXPORTING WORKSHEETS; Opening and Existing Worksheet; Saving a Worksheet; Opening a MAPLE Text Fle; Exporting Worksheets and LaTeX; DOCUMENT PREPARATION; Adding Text; Inserting Math into Text; Adding Titles and Headings; Creating a Subsection; Cutting and Pasting; Bookmarks and Hypertext; MORE GRAPHICS; The plottoos Package; The geometry Package; The geom3d Package; SPECIAL FUNCTIONS; Overview of Mathematical Functions; Bessel Functions; The GamMa Function; Hypergeometric Functions; Elliptic Integrals; The AGM; Jacobi's Theta Functions; Elliptic Functions; The Riemann Zeta Function; Orthogonal Polynomials; Integral Transforms; Fast Fourier Transform; Asymptotic Expansion; STATISTICS; Introduction; Data Sets; Numerical Methods for Describing Data; Transforming Data; Graphical Methods for Describing Data; Linear Regression; ANOVA; Distributions; OVERVIEW OF OTHER PACKAGES; Finite Fields; Polynomials; Group Theory; Combinatorics; Number Theory; Numerical Approximation; Miscellaneous Packages; New Packages; APPENDICES; MAPLE Resources; Glossary of Commands; Further Reading; REFERENCES; INDEX
• Publisher Details: Boca Raton, Fla : Chapman & Hall/CRC
• Publication Date: 2002
• Copyright Date: 2002
• Extent: 1 online resource (479 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 510/.285/53042; Algebra -- Data processing; MATHEMATICS -- Discrete Mathematics; Algebra -- Data processing; Maple (computerprogramma); Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 1420035606; 9781420035605; 9781584882329; 1584882328
• Related ISBNs: 1584882328
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 461-463) and index.; Note: Print version record.
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