Book Review: The Maple Book, by Frank Garvan

Greatly expanded and updated from the author's Maple V Primer, The Maple Book offers extensive coverage of Maple through version 7. The Maple Book serves as an introduction to Maple and as a reference. The author has organised the topics by mathematical subject area. It first covers high school algebra and graphing, continues with calculus and differential equations, then moves on to linear algebra, vector calculus, complex analysis, special functions, group theory, number theory and combinatorics. It includes coverage of all Maple packages, with particular attention to the LinearAlgebra package.

The Maple Book includes a step-by-step tutorial on the Maple programming language, including module creation. Once readers have learned how to program, they will appreciate the real power of Maple. There are also simple but creative graphics examples that readers can experiment with.

The convenient format and straightforward style of The Maple Book lets users proceed at their own pace, practice with the examples and learn new functions as they need them. The Maple examples used in the book are available for download at www.crcpress.com. Whatever your level of expertise, you will want to keep The Maple Book next to your computer.
The Maple Book is available for sale online at http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk. ISBN Number 1584882328

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