The Mathematical Bridge is a wooden bridge that spans the River Cam that joins two parts of Queens' College. You can see it from the Silver Street bridge over the Cam, or by visiting Queens' College, or by taking a punt trip along the Cam at the 'backs' of the colleges. If you ask a tourist guide they will usually tell you the story of how this bridge was designed and constructed by Sir Isaac Newton using mathematical principles, and was built without the need for bolts to hold it together. The college later wanted to find out how the bridge was built and dismantled it, but were unable to reassemble it in the same way and had to put bolts into it to hold it together.

The University of Cambridge has been the academic home of a long list of mathematicians. Many of the best known and most influential have held the position of Lucasian Professor of Mathematics. These have included Sir Isaac Newton, Charles Babbage, Paul Dirac and the current holder Stephen Hawking.

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I thought I would take up a little time to write about some of the new plotting features in Maple 11. This post will give an overview of what is in Maple 11 plotting - subsequent posts will give more details on the individual features. Let's look at each of the features mentioned on the plotting enhancements page. All of these are only for 2-D plots.