User Guide

4 Mathematical Computations
As discussed in previous chapters, Maple contains numerous built-in re-
sources for computations.
These resources—and others on the Maplesoft Web site—are available for
the areas discussed in this chapter, and many more. Your first step in solving
a problem should be to review the related Maple resources available. This
will help you to quickly and easily solve problems. See Table 4.1.
Table 4.1: Maple Resources for Mathematical Computation
DescriptionResource
Graphical interfaces with buttons and sliders to easily per-
form a computation, create a plot, or perform other opera-
tions.
• From the Tools menu, select Assistants.
Point-and-click assistants
Pop-up menu of common operations for the selected object,
based on its type.
• Select the expression in 2-D Math input or output, and
then right-click (for Macintosh, Control-click).
Context menus
Collections of related items that you can insert by clicking
or dragging. Some palettes contain mathematical operations
with placeholders for parameters.
• From the View menu, select Palettes, and then Expand
Docks.
Palettes
Set of commands with placeholders that you can use to
quickly perform a task. Some tasks contain graphical com-
ponents such as buttons.
• From the Tools menu, select Tasks, and then Browse.
Task templates
Provides detailed information about mathematical functions,
for example, definitions, identities, and mathematical prop-
erties.
• Refer to the ?FunctionAdvisor help page.
FunctionAdvisor command
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