Essential Maple 7 Book

	What's in This Book
	Acknowledgements
	List of Figures
1	Basics	1
1.1	Getting Started	1
1.2	Some Things to Watch Out For	26
1.3	Documenting Your Work	37
1.4	The Three Levels of Maple "Black Boxes"	42
1.5	No Nontrivial Software Package is Bug-Free	43
1.6	Evaluation Rules	44
1.7	The assume Facility	52
2	Useful One-Word Commands	56
2.1	Simplification	56
2.2	Solving Equations	79
2.3	Manipulations from Calculus	110
2.4	Adding Terms versus the Finite-Difference Calculus	124
2.5	Floating-Point Evaluation	129
2.6	The Most Helpful Maple Utilities	135
2.7	Plotting in Maple	142
2.8	Packages in Maple	173
3	Programming in Maple	186
3.1	Procedures	187
3.2	Operators and Modules	196
3.3	Data Structures	205
3.4	Local versus Global versus Environment Variables	211
3.5	Recursion and option remember	215
3.6	Variable Number or Type of Arguments	224
3.7	Returning More Than One Result	226
3.8	Debugging Maple Programs	228
3.9	Sample Maple Programs	235
A	A Primer on Complex Variables	258
	Bibliography	271
	Index	275