User interface is interactive, but an easy to use programming language is available. Matrix Operations, Curvilinear Coordinates, Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors. Lie Symmetries, Fields, Groebner Bases, Group Theory, Differential Forms, Galois Groups, Power Series, Polynomial Factorization, Linear Optimization, Financial Analysis, Statistics, Combinatorics, Number Theory, Geometry, Graph Theory. Graphs of Multiple Functions, Implicit Curves, Arrays of Plots, Semilog, Log, and loglog Plots, Variety of Coordinate systems, Contour Plots. User-interface appearance is the same for all platforms.
Worksheets are portable.
Comprehensive On-line Help, including Full Text Searching, Help Browser, and Hypertext Access. The version installed at the UNIX workstations is Maple V release 4. Documentation Maple has a comprehensive set of manuals. The Maple Handbook Both are available at the the Computer Center library. In addition, there are many books written about Maple by third-party authors, either as an alternative tutorial, or as guides to the use of Maple in certain areas.