The Practical Approach Utilities for Maple

The Practical Approach Utilities for Maple is a software product consisting of one diskette and one manual. The software consists of over 100 well designed and thoroughly-tested Maple utility commands which allow the beginning and advanced Maple user greater control and efficiency when dealing with all types of Maple structures, freeing up the user's time for mathematical exploration and experimentation. Easy-to-use procedures are available in the areas of expression surgery, matrix manipulation, plotting basic shapes in two and three dimensions, transforming plots, pattern matching, and more. The manual explains how the utilities supplement the standard Maple and gives detailed examples of their uses as well as tips on how they were coded so that the user can write commands of his or her own.