Maple Maple is licensed for use on university owned equipment. However, it can be used at home by students via an X-Windows package.
Maple is a symbolic computation system.
It offers functions to solve many forms of mathematical problems. Maple handles functions in a symbolic manner, producing a numerical result only when instructed to do so by its eval function. This is by no means an exhaustive list. Maple includes 2 and 3 dimensional plotting routines. By writing out functions in the Maple language it is possible to further extend its capabilities.