MATH549 Maple-LaTeX: Maple material

(Click here for LaTeX stuff.)

What to do if Maple won't start

  1. First look for the Maple 11 Classic Worksheet icon on the desktop, or in Start->Programs->Maple11. If it's there, and has the normal Maple icon, then you should be OK.
  2. Otherwise, go to Start->Network->Mathematics->Maple11 and Right-click on the Maple 11 icon. Choose Verify from the drop-down menu, and after the MWS has done its stuff start again at step 1. If Verify isn't on the drop-down menu, then choose Open instead and then return to the beginning of step 2.
  3. If you don't have a Network entry on your Start menu, then make sure there isn't a little icon in the bottom right of the screen showing a magnifying glass rotating around a washing machine. If there is, then wait for it to stop rotating. If there isn't, then log out and in again, and don't touch anything until the magnifying glass stops turning.
  4. If all else fails, contact the helpdesk. Maple is provided and supported by Computing Services Department, not by this department.

Using Maple off-campus

Maple is commercial software, so you will need to pay (quite a lot) to install it on your own computers.

An alternative is to use the Windows Terminal Service provided by the Computing Services Department. Click on the link above, log in with your usual username and password, install the Citrix software on the Client Detection and Download page if necessary, and then find Classic Worksheet Maple 12 in the Mathematics application group.

Since you will be running Maple on a remote computer, it may be fairly slow.

Exercise sheets 4 to 6

There will be 6 exercise sheets, sheets 1 to 3 dealing with LaTeX and sheets 4 to 6 dealing with Maple. They will be posted here as they become available.

Maple sheet 4 and some hints.

Maple sheet 5 and some hints.

Maple sheet 6 and some hints.

Some documentation

The Maple Learning Guide. This describes the most important commands in Maple and how you might use them to solve particular problems. Please don't print out the whole of this guide on the department's printers.

A Quick reference card. It's worth looking through this for occasional nuggets of information, though much of it isn't relevant to Maple as we'll be learning it in this module.