User Guide

3.4 Solving Equations
You can solve a variety of equation types, including those described in Table
3.3.
Table 3.3: Overview of Solution Methods for Important Equation Types
Solution MethodEquation Type
solve and fsolve commandsEquations and inequations
ODE Analyzer Assistant (and dsolve command)Ordinary differential equations
pdsolve commandPartial differential equations
isolve commandIntegers equations
msolve commandInteger equations in a finite field
LinearAlgebra[LinearSolve] commandLinear systems
rsolve commandRecurrence relations
Note: Many solve operations are available as task templates
(Tools>Tasks>Browse) and in context menus. This section focuses on other
methods.
Solving Equations and Inequations
Using Maple, you can symbolically solve equations and inequations. You
can also solve equations numerically.
To solve an equation or set of equations using context menus:
1. Right-click (for Macintosh, Control-click) the equations.
2. From the context menu, select Solve (or Solve Numerically). See Figure
3.2.
78 • 3 Performing Computations