Maple 9 enhances mathematical exploration with a versatile infrastructure, friendlier user interface and innovative, powerful capabilities
Adept Scientific announces the release of Maple 9, the newest version of the widely adopted Maple analytical computation software from Maplesoft, used by educators, researchers and professionals across the world.
The improvements in Maple 9 focus on three areas: to create a more open and accessible infrastructure; a more versatile user interface; and to continue innovation in mathematics education and analytical computation - the core strengths of the Maple product.
"Our users have told us time and time again that they consider Maple to be the friendliest and most accessible maths software package on the market.
We1ve worked hard to ensure that Maple 9 continues to deserve this reputation," says Tom Lee, VP of marketing and executive product director at Maplesoft.
He adds: "As with every new release of Maple, we strive to supply new and better algorithms to researchers who take on the most difficult computational tasks in their fields." Technical professionals have long valued Maple1s ability to translate its computational results into programming code for other languages. Maple 9 has added Matlab and Visual Basic to its set of target languages, which already includes C, Fortran and Java.
Also, new tools in Maple 9 help users create code generators for other languages.
Through a new API (Application Programming Interface) called OpenMaple, users can harness the Maple 9 maths engine from external programs.
For example, a database program written in C or Visual Basic could invoke Maple 9 algorithms for data analysis.
Maple 9 provides full native support for Mac OS X, opening the most recent innovations in the Maple product line to a wider community of users.
Maplesoft redesigned the Help interface in Maple 9 for easier navigation and searching.
The Help system now provides one convenient window for keyword searching, topic searching, and browsing by category.
Maple 9 has integrated OpenViz from Advanced Visual Systems (AVS), one of the world's top technologies for rendering interactive graphics. With OpenViz, users can create translucent 3-D plots and make them spin continuously around any axis, providing a more complete and aesthetic view of 3-D objects.
Maple 9 includes a graphical interface for analysing differential equations, more flexible worksheet formatting capabilities, rotatable graphics inside Maplets, better menu organisation, a graphical debugger, and free-form sketch regions.
Maple 9 includes two new student packages for learning linear algebra, precalculus and calculus. The student packages promote better learning through a set of visualisation routines that help cast abstract concepts in a concrete light, and through a set of interactive tutors that help students work through the high-level steps of maths problems.
As with each new release of Maple since its historic beginnings 20 years ago, Maple 9 provides state-of-the-art algorithms for analytical computation.
For example, Maple 9 has integrated the GMP libraries that enable computations with up to millions of digits accuracy.
Maple 9 also includes new algorithms for FFT, integration and solving differential equations Maple 9 will be available for Windows, Macintosh, Linux and various Unix platforms.
A wide variety of full and upgrade licence options is available for academic and commercial users.
Maple 9 is supplied and supported in the UK and Ireland by Adept Scientific.
