Symbolic Mathematics Programs

We have two very powerful symbolic mathematical packages on our machines, Maple and Mathematica. We strongly encourage users to adopt Maple as Rutgers have site license agreement with Maple manufacturer resulting in greatly lower cost of keeping and upgrading it versus its competitor Mathematica. Both are of almost identical capabilities and very similar to use. Plresently we have Mathematica 3 (unlimited) and 4 (only 4 users at the time) as well as Maple 9 (unlimited users). Please check for availability on particular servers as this changes frequently.

Please note that Maple is supported at Rutgers University, while Mathematica is not. Maple runs on all our Suns, Mathematica only on two - and only one of those two, electron, has unlimited users license. Thus if you are going to be here for a while and are not yet committed to Mathematica, Maple might be the better choice. The capabilities of the two programs are very similar - which is better is controversial.

What follows is under construction. I intend first to compile a list of links, and then later to make sense of them.

• Mathematica
  • Homepage of Wolfram Research
  • MathSource , from Wolfram Research
  • Mathematica, from CAIN
  • Some programs you can open within Mathematica that might be of interest, all in /home/shapiro/docs/teaching/compsinphys/roseHulman/evans
    • MmaLitSurvey.ma, MmaLitSurvey.mb
    • introduction.ma, introduction.mb
    • sig_sys.ma, sig_sys.mb
    • ch1_prob.ma, ch1_sol.ma
• Maple
  • Maple Home Site
  • Maple, from CAIN
  • Introduction to Maple
  • Hamlet Home Page
    Hamlet is an external viewer that (among other things) allows any Web browser to communicate with other X windows -- including Maple and Mathematica -- with synthetic keyboard events.
    

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    The next four really should be elsewhere, but they are here for now.
  • Symbolic Algebra in the Classroom: Discuss, Demonstrate, or Do?
    Postscript version of the slides used for the presention by Doug Meade at the NSF Workshop on the Revitalization the Engineering, Mathematics, and Science Curricula via Symbolic Algebra, hosted by Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, July 10-15, 1995.
  • Calculus II
    Maple worksheets for in-class demonstrations, by Doug Meade
  • Introduction to Differential Equations
    Complete course documents, including Maple worksheets and a variety of introductory documents. By Doug Meade