Maple : The powerful mathematical engine

The widely acclaimed "Maple" software package originated as project of
the Symbolic Computation group at the University of Waterloo, Ontario,
Canada. Maple's traditional strengths are in symbolic manipulation and
pure-mathematics works regularly used in universities. It has a million
plus user base swelled by licensed Maple symbolics engines behind the
scenes in "Mathcad", "Matlab" and "Scientific Workplace".

There is a strong user base in top-notch universities like Caltech, MIT,
Stanford and Cambridge as well as Industries - like Boeing, Raytheon,
Nortel ... We know some General Relativists who just love using Maple
for doing their tedious calculations of tensor algebra or differential forms.

Maplesoft provides strong online support. The Application Center
provides thousands of free worksheets, including larger "PowerTools"
application packages for researchers and Mathematics educators. There
is also a Student Centre and MaplePrimes, a commercial fast-track
support site for subscribers to the Maple Extended Maintenance Plan.

Math Education:
Maple has a student edition available to accredited students.
MapleNet is an online platform for web-based distance learning.
MapleTA is another online product for "testing and assessment" for
creating and administering online mathematical tests.

Maple 9.5 runs in all post-98 Windows, Linux, Unix and Mac OS X.
We will cover various aspects of Maple products in our future postings.