Most of the comparisons (that I've seen so far) amongst Maple, Matlab, and Mathematica are either incomplete, inaccurate, or biased.

This collection of three articles [1 (1), 2 (2),

Dear Maple users

I use Maple in my physics class in high school. In connection to that I have stumbled on a couple of oddities with the new version 14:

It looks like a bug, that Maple...

I'm not sure why this is, but almost any topic I look up there is a link to someone who has done something similar to it in Matlab or Mathematica but not Maple.  And almost always if something is found in Maple, it can be found in both Matlab and Mathematica. 

Let's take for example googling rock paper and scissors.  Someone's done a simulation in Matlab and there's a notebook in mathematica, however I find nothing in Maple.  Also, however,...

On Tuesday August 10, 2010, the first meeting of an ad hoc group focused on exploring the use of MapleSim in the engineering curriculum met at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.  Faculty from McMaster University, Kettering University, Lawrence Technical University, University of Waterloo, Ryerson University, University of Ontario Inst. of Technology, and the State University of New York (Buffalo and Binghamton).

The full-day workshop provided an ideal...

This is the third post in a four-part series; the earlier posts are Generating...

This is not a question about any technical problem with Maple.I'm not even sure that is it a question or a post.Since I'm asking something inside it,I consider it as a question.I'm sorroy that it is too long.

In scientific computing(computational physics/chemestry/biology/enginnering),which needs a large amount of data to manipulate and then simulate,some high level programming languages(HLL) are used.

Different fields have different language of choice...

This is the second post in a four-part series that started with this post: Generating...

Maple's Statistics package contains many predefined probability distributions; well-known ones such as the normal distribution and lesser-known ones such as the Gumbel distribution. For these distributions, we ship efficient algorithms that can quickly generate a large number of sample points. To generate a sample of size 10⁶ of both of these distributions, and print the time it took to do this (in seconds), you can run the following:

with(Statistics):

I stumbled upon this interesting quirk.  My apologies if it's already been brought up.  This is for Maple 12 on a 32 bit windows machine.  It's possibly different for newer versions and operating systems. 

restart;
gc();
memory usage displays 1.37M

restart; gc();
memory usage displays 0.43M

The point was that it uses more than a half a megabyte more if gc() is put on a seperate line ... interesting..

A new version of the Maple T.A. MAA Placement Test Suite is now available.  The latest release includes a new Calculus Concepts Readiness Test, based on modern research into calculus assessment. It also includes performance improvements when dealing with large student populations, and tools for integration with Moodle™ and other course management systems. To learn more, visit What’s New in PTS 6

The MRB constant is defined at http://mathworld.wolfram.com/MRBConstant.html.

On about Dec 31, 1998 I computed 1 digit of the MRB constant with my TI-92's, by adding 1-sqrt(2)+3^(1/3)-4^(1/4) as far as I could. That first digit by the way is just 0.

On Jan 11, 1999 I computed 3 digits of the MRB constant with the Inverse Symbolic Calculator.

There is a probem in the Optimization package's (nonlinear programming problem) NLPSolve routine which affects multivariate problems given in so-called Operator form. That is, when the objective and constraints are not provided as expressions. Below is a workaround for this.

Usually, an objective (or constraint) gets processed by Optimization using automatic differentiation tools ...

If I was working for MapleSoft and I wanted to make sure that
Maple would become the best mathematics software in the world
the first thing I would look at would be my competitors.

I had a look at Mathematica's website and their marketing outline
some some very cool functionality that speak to my heart directly.
1) Integrated datasources  2) real time data analysis etc etc

I dont really like Mathematica due to their retarded programming

An interesting discussion on rule-based integration and a new symbolic computer algebra package for it, named Rubi is ongoing in this long usenet thread.

(The Rubi link above seems to work ok, although the link in the top article of that usenet thread may not. YMMV.)

There's also some interesting subtext related to how practical developments in computer algebra systems can come about.