Maple Toolbox for Matlab

Maplesoft has come up with a great product that users of both Maple and MATLAB were trying to have for a long time to receive the benefit of both by combining all advantages of symbolic and numeric computation offered by these two softwares.

Maplesoft has announced Maple™ Toolbox for MATLAB® to extend their helping hands to the mathematics community. It consists of two components, Maple-10 and the Maple-MATLAB Connector. With this toolbox, Maplesoft offers a technical computing solution that is tightly integrated with MATLAB, providing direct access to all the commands, variables, and functions of each product while working in either environment. MATLAB-users get direct access to Maple from within MATLAB. It can access to over 50 interactive assistants and tutors to aid rapid development of solutions fully compatible with all MATLAB applications that use the Symbolic Math Toolbox (Standard and Extended) without any reworking needed.

The following are the key Features of the toolbox: Access to full Maple; Interactive technical document interface with intuitive 2-D equation editor for typeset-quality mathematical presentation; Up to 50 times faster than the Extended Symbolic Math Toolbox. Additional features include: Statistics, Units, Optimization, Tolerances, Enhanced graphics, Code generation to 5 languages (C, FORTRAN, Visual Basic, Java and MATLAB).

A public beta version of the Maple-MATLAB Connector is currently available at: http://www.maplesoft.com/products/MapleMATLAB. We used it and we just fell in love with it. Hats off to Maplesoft for addressing this long-time request of the mathematics community and bringing this out just at the beginning of summer. We'll find enough time to play with it before schools start and then apply it in our classes.