Personal Stories

Stories about how you have used Maple, MapleSim and Math in your life or work.

Recently, a Maplesoft customer service representative received an e-mail from one of our users with the subject line: A Simple Thank You. We wanted to share this message with you, as it demonstrates how the power and flexibility of Maple helped one student get ahead in his studies.

The following is an actual email we received from Eli E., which describes his experience using Maple as a university student.

Hello, my name is Eli...

 

Revision Note:
I have updated the graph in the attached Maple document based on Doug Meade's comment below.
CarTalkPuzzler_9-22-.mw 

 

Car Talk, a humorous phone-in program in which Tom and Ray Magliozzi (Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers) diagnose and offer solutions for mysterious auto-related maladies, is carried by National Public Radio...

On Monday, August 6 at 1:31 a.m. EDT, NASA will attempt the landing of a new planetary rover, named Curiosity, on the surface of Mars.  The Mars Science Laboratory project is managed by the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, a world-renowned center for robotic space exploration and advanced science and engineering.  JPL recently began a widespread adoption of Maplesoft technology, and Maplesoft’s products are expected to help JPL save...

If anyone was interested Euro 2012 starts tomorrow.  Using the FIFA simulation created by Robert Israel one could enter the new values for the ELO ratings found here http://www.eloratings.net/euro_cup.html to create a similar simlation of Euro 2012.  Just for visual sakes here's the ELO ratings for the teams in the tournament.

Maplesoft has these interesting bits of Math on their website.  For example this one here

http://www.maplesoft.com/mathmatters/airplanes.aspx

It is all nice and all but I would like to see some reference examples to maple for each one, a cool application worksheet that portrays each one nicely. 

Using the example link above I searched maplesoft application center for navier stokes...

Not really a review but I think Maple has so much cool stuff one can do with it, that we get sidetracked from one project to the next.   Before you know it, a new release is out and you've put your project on hold to try out and play with the new features - and not really forging ahead on any projects.  One year between new releases isn't enough time to have customers really, and I mean really, dive into Maple.

Here is what a reviewer at computing world said about Maple16

Being easy to use is nice, but being easy to learn with is better. Maple’s ease-of-use paradigm, captured in the phrases “Clickable Calculus” and “Clickable Math” provides a syntax-free way to use Maple. The learning curve is flattened. But making Maple easy to use to use badly in the classroom helps neither student nor instructor.

In the mid to late ‘80s,...

I am surfing around looking for cloud database providers (a lot of them are free
such as http://xeround.com) Then it struck me that maple has a cloud. Unfortunatly I
dont think it can handle what I want it to do:

Wouldnt it be cool if every maple user could have a personal or public data warehouse
in the maple cloud instead of everyone having sql servers running localy with attached
cron jobs and head aches.

It...

Released today, with over 4500 additions and enhancements, Maple 16 reinforces our track record for consistent innovation and industry leadership in areas like ease of use and symbolic computing performance.

Dr. Gilbert Lai is a mentor for the FIRST Robotics team SWAT 771. He is helping an all girls team from grades 7-12 design a basketball-shooting robot for this year’s annual FIRST Robotics Competition. Dr. Lai is using MapleSim and Maple to help the team understand the principles involved and design their robot. This blog post is part of a series that chronicles the progress of the team.  Posts in the series include:

  • Part 1 - ...

This should be a blog post but there is no option for ordinary mapleprimers. 

If you have a gmail account you can access the data on google insights (what people search for on google and where in the world is that keyword searched the most).  Actually you don't need gmail but you don't get access to the full data and your limited to a few searches.  Using Maples internet connectivity commands I'm sure could prove to create some interesting apps.

Dr. Gilbert Lai is a mentor for the FIRST Robotics team SWAT 771. He is helping an all girls team from grades 7-12 design a basketball-shooting robot for this year’s annual FIRST Robotics Competition. Dr. Lai is using MapleSim and Maple to help the team understand the principles involved and design their robot. This blog post is part of a series that chronicles the progress of the team.  Posts in the series include:

  • Part 1 - 

A recent quote from a thread in sci.math.symbolic:

"FriCAS can produce various 3D plots.  Interface is not pretty, but the plots are." -- Waldek Hebisch

I don't even care if it's true (about FriCAS). I love the sense of priorities.

Ukaine-2012. External independent evaluation. A trial version in Maple, by Maple.
HTML, Java-Interactive:
http://webmath.exponenta.ru/zno_11/ranok/z.html
Maple:2012_ranok_ru_bez.mw

The cost of some mathematical sites (estimated bizinformation.org):
 8.000.000 $ - wolfram.com
   372.456 $ - webmath.exponenta.ru (Russian Maple in education)
   292.301 $ - maplesoft.com

    82.342 $ - exponenta.ru
    61.278 $ - webmath.ru
    54.895 $ - math.ege
    43.302 $ - univ.kiev.ua (Kiev National University)

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