jwwalden@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (Darc Tangent) (03/07/91)
Does anyone on this newsgroup own Maple? I'm interested in knowing what you think of it in general and in comparison to other mathematics packages (esp. Mathematica which I'm familiar with). I've also heard about a new version of Maple being released and I was wondering if it was coming out for the Amiga. Furthermore, I'd like to know if they have an educational discount and what the address for the company (university?) that produces Maple is. Thank you. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Darc Tangent "Giants are just like people, only bigger. jwwalden@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu Much, much bigger!" jwwalden@miavx1.bitnet - the witch from _Into_the_Woods_
hb136@leah.albany.edu (Herb Brown) (03/07/91)
In article <4145.27d51db9@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu> jwwalden@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (Darc Tangent) writes: >Does anyone on this newsgroup own Maple? I'm interested in knowing what you >think of it in general............ >I've also heard about a new version of >Maple being released and I was wondering if it was coming out for the Amiga. > >Thank you. > >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >Darc Tangent "Giants are just like people, only bigger. >jwwalden@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu Much, much bigger!" >jwwalden@miavx1.bitnet - the witch from _Into_the_Woods_ The Mathematics Dept at The University at Albany uses Maple as one of its primary pieces of software in an Amiga Computer Classroom where we offer a full range of undergraduate mathematics courses. The latest version of Maple is Maple V. It is now in its latest stages of beta testing and should be available soon. Information about Maple may be obtained from Janet Cater at Waterloo Maple Software, jecater@daisy.waterloo.edu. I am not affiliated with Waterloo maple Software. I am a user who happens to be quite content with the product. Herb Herb Brown Math Dept The University at Albany Albany Ny 12222
bcphyagi@csunb.csun.edu (Stephen Walton) (03/08/91)
There are a couple of other things Maple users (and potential ones) might like to know: There is a Maple mailing list for discussions. Send email to maple@daisy.waterloo.edu. There is a USENET group, sci.math.symbolic, for discussion of symbolic math packages. As you might suppose, there are lots of Mathematica types there, but the Maple people hang out there too. Finally, if you're trying to convince your supervisor/professor/thesis advisor/system manager to get Maple instead of Mathematica, take a look at the paper "A Review of Mathematica," by Richard Fateman of UC Berkeley. It is available from peoplesparc.Berkeley.EDU by anonymous FTP, as the LaTeX source file ~ftp/pub/mma.review.tex. -- Stephen R. Walton, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Cal State Northridge bcphyagi@csunb.csun.edu until my Suns come back up