New features in Maple V Release 2
Symbolic Computation Group

• Development of Improved User Interfaces
  • Maple worksheets
  • Two-dimensional output
  • Unix Maple interface
  • X Window interface
  • Help topic browser
  • Improved error messages
  • On-line tutorial
• Graphics
  • Improvements to rendering and the PLOT and PLOT3D data structures
  • Device support
  • New plotting facilities and improvements (plots package)
• New and Enhanced Mathematical Facilities
  • New mathematical functions known to Maple
  • Enhanced numerical facilities
  • Algebraic numbers and algebraic functions
  • Polynomial factorization over algebraic number and function fields
  • Symbolic eigenvalue and eigenvector computation.
  • ODEs with Bessel and hypergeometric function solutions
  • Symbolic Fourier transform
  • New limit algorithm
  • Symbolic simplifications for min, max, trunc, round, ceil, floor, Re, Im
  • Norms and traces in algebraic number and function fields
  • Computing with field extensions: Indep, Primfield
  • Continued fractions
  • Diophantine approximation
• New and Enhanced Integration Facilities
  • Dirac and Heaviside
  • Elliptic integrals
  • Algebraic functions
  • Integration of the W function
  • The exponential integral, error function, and related integrals
  • New classes of definite integrals
  • Handling singularities in an indefinite integral
• New and Enhanced System Facilities
  • Type declarations for parameters
  • D extended to computation sequences and programs
  • Program optimization - optimize extended to procedures
  • Multiple libraries - readlib takes multiple pathnames
  • Assume facility
  • Automatic complex numeric arithmetic
  • Arrow operators now accept if statements
  • I/O facilities and changes
  • Restart facility
  • errorbreak
• Algorithmic and Efficiency Improvements
  • Integration of rational functions
  • Bivariate polynomial GCDs over Z
  • Factorization over algebraic number fields
  • Faster numerical evaluation of the arctrig functions
  • Optimized the evaluation of numerical arithmetic
  • Floating point solutions to polynomials
  • Character tables for Sn
• New Library Functions
• Library Packages
  • numapprox (Numerical Approximation Package)
  • DEtools (Differential Equation Tools Package)
  • Gauss
  • GaussInt (Gaussian Integer Package)
  • linalg (Linear Algebra Package)
  • numtheory: (Number Theory Package)
  • padic (P-adic Number Package)
  • plots (Plots Package)
  • networks: (Graph Networks Package)
• Share Library
  • Contributions from Maple users
  • How to access code from the share library from inside Maple
  • Electronic distribution version of the Maple share library
  • Policy of the contributions to the share library
• Miscellaneous
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