Maple Product Reviews
“If you design products, you have to do some maths. It's unavoidable; it goes with the territory. And if you're like most, you had to invest in a good calculator in college. You've been in the work force for a while and you probably need to replace that faithful companion. What do you do? If you're smart, you look at Maple 11 by Maplesoft."
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Review by Mike Hudspeth, Cadalyst Labs Review: Maple 11, May 2007.
“The smart document environment ... includes the ability to use natural maths notation in titles, legends, and labels, and annotation capabilities such as sketching, adding text and maths, and drawing lines, shapes and arrows."
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Product of the month, NASA Tech Briefs, March 2007.
“With an eye on the future, Maple has, for
some time, been radically developing its interface and this continues
in release 11: what used to be one of the less friendly computer algebra
environments is becoming, in many ways, one of the most imaginative…Overall,
this may be the most substantial landmark release of Maple for some time.
More important, perhaps, is the evidence which it presents of strategic
evolutionary directions and concrete platforms for user preparation to
follow them.”
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Review by Felix Grant, Scientific Computing World,
September 2006.
Editor Anthony Lockwood, impressed with a number
of new capabilities in Maple 11, picks the product as Desktop Engineering’s
product of the week. Extract:
“Maple has been a leading computational engine for professionals
and students of engineering, science, design, maths and financial stuff
for years now. One of the reasons for this is that Maplesoft, like its
users, never stops pushing the boundaries of where Maple can go…if
your work has anything to do with crunching, plotting, and documenting
numbers, you deserve to check out Maple 11 for yourself.” Read full
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Desktop Engineering, Editor’s Pick of the Week
"Maple 11 is the latest and greatest from Maplesoft
and handles everything from differential equations to graph theory to
statistics. There is very little that Maple can't do in terms of mathematical
computation and the application has saved me countless hours of tedium
and pain as I work towards my masters degree."
Christopher Dawson, Teacher and IT administrator, Athol, MA High School
“The one common framework that connects all
stages of analysis and design is maths. This perspective is the foundation
of the newest generation of general purpose interactive maths systems
such as Maple from Maplesoft. These powerful system offer a range of maths
solvers and exploratory and knowledge tools to express, manipulate and
manage the core mathematical information accurately and naturally.
As modern engineering becomes more complex and as the timelines to innovations
continue to shorten, more and more engineers are beginning to discover
the benefits of comprehensive maths systems in the industrial tool chain.
Elimination of sign and unit errors, ability to perform “pre-simulations”
on idealised models to determine feasible parameter spaces, and checking
results can mean significant time savings and increased quality of design
information.” To read more click
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Maple review by Tom Lee, Canadian Electronics, September 2006
“Using Maple allowed us to investigate the
interaction of all the important parameters in 3D representations that
helped us understand the extent of the interdependencies. The 3D capability
offers a very powerful visualisation tool of the complete results. To
achieve the same results using any other numerical simulation environment
requires enormous amount of batch simulation, data compiling and graphing.
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USER STORY. Desktop Engineering, October 2006
"The Global Optimization Toolbox (GOT) for Maple provides a widely
applicable, fully integrated development environment that can support
control engineering applications and help realise the significant potential
that global optimisation has, as a valuable tool in control system design.
Global optimisation seeks to find the best solution to a constrained nonlinear
optimisation problem by performing a complete search over a set of feasible
solutions…The GOT, is part of the Maple Professional Toolbox series
of add-on products. It is immediately apparent that the core LGO solver
is perfectly integrated within the Maple environment. In particular, the
user can provide optimisation model functions and constraints as high-level
Maple algebraic, functional or matrix expressions.” To read more
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Global Optimization Toolbox for Maple Review IEEE Control
Systems Magazine, October 2006
“Many things can be done faster, more intuitively,
more productively and more enjoyably….Using nVizx is like being
given a lump of infinitely elastic clay and an infinite space in which
to play…As is usual, Maple seeks to combine the best features from
different methods into a compound approach for dealing with literally
thousands of variables and constraints.” To read more click
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nVizx Review by Felix Grant, Scientific Computing World, September 2006.
"Maple is used by scientists and engineers both
to model and analyze solutions to mathematical and engineering problems.
That description applies to many software applications, but what sets
Maple 10 apart is its depth. This program provides the comprehensive set
of tools you need to completely address difficult problems.... Whatever
your needs, if you decide to use Maple, you won’t quickly run out
of capability." Tom Lecklider, Senior Technical Editor of Evaluation
Engineering, gets to grips with Maple 10 to explore Fibonacci numbers,
fractals and the Golden Mean. To read more click
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Maple 10 Review by Tom Lecklider, Evaluation Engineering
"Do you know people who use Excel spreadsheets
for their maths? Or maybe that's you. Have you ever worked really hard
to enter all the right formulas so you could get the correct answers,
only to have them come out wrong because you made a mistake? How much
fun was that to fix? Maple 10 has a better way." To read more click
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Maple 10 Review by Mike Hudspeth, Cadalyst
"The new Maple interface is the most exciting
development I’ve seen in highend mathematics packages in several
years." To read the full review in PDF form click
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Maple 10 Review by Barry Simon, Desktop Engineering
 The
big news with the launch of Maplesoft's Maple 10 is the fact that this
is the first time in its 20-year history that the company has introduced
a WSYWIG maths environment in a project release....
Best Analysis and Calculation Software Winner, Design News, March 2006
"It takes a lot to impress most jaded software reviewers, especially
with a product that we first reviewed in 1989. But we were totally blown
away by Maplesoft's Maple 10 mathematical package." To read more
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Maple 10 Review by Barry Simon, PC Magazine
"Maple 10's most obvious strengths are in the
friendly developments to its general interface... it continues in bringing
its mathematical power into an accessible form that's increasingly the
norm for such packages, and I highly recommend it to anyone who needs
a strong repertoire of pure mathematics in a clean modern interface."
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Ray Girvan, Scientific Computing World
"Without Maple software, we
would have to spend weeks generating the equations of motion for every
experiment. Then, the chances that we did it right would basically be
near zero. There always would be a mistake somewhere. It is very difficult
to set up a dynamic motion model by hand."
Jean-Claude Piedboeuf Ph.D, Manager of Robotics, Canadian Space
Agency
"Maple is an excellent engineering
tool that provides insight into the complex analytical problems engineers
face every day. When faced with mission critical analysis, Maple is a
tool I can both trust and rely on in all my projects."
Craig Good, Design Analysis Engineer, Breed Technologies, Inc.
"Used imaginatively, Maple can
help students learn better and faster, and help prepare them using the
mathematics technology that they will need throughout their professional
lives."
Gregory A. Moore, Mathematics Instructor, Orange
Coast College, CA
"Maple is a sophisticated piece
of mathematical software applicable to every course we teach here at AWC.
From the simplest to the most sophisticated applications, we will expose
our students to a valuable aid in solving problems."
David L. Baughman, Professor of Mathematics, Arizona Western
College
"I have been using Maple for
threeyears now and find it to be very intuitive. Whenever I am in need
of a certain function, I have never been in a situation that I cannot
find what I need in the Maple Help."
Ron Zuckerman, RHIT Student
"Maple is the first piece of software I've ever
seen that displays mathematical graphs, functions and symbols the same
way I'd write them. Never has it been so easy to figure out where I made
my mistakes."
Nathan Sokalski, Computer and Information Sciences
Student, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania
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