Great Maple Links

This collaborative book is intended to collect a comprehensive list of online Maple resources and links. Feel free to add entries as well as entire categories.

General math and computing sites of interest to Maple users

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Catalog of math resources on the Web

M. Mahaswaran's Catalog of Mathematics Resources on the WWW and the Internet ia a very complete list of useful Math links (the most complete I've ever seen).

Convex Optimization & Euclidean Distance Geometry


Convex Optimization and Distance Geometry:

Dave Rusin's Mathematical Atlas

Dave Rusin, a Professor of Mathematics at Northern Illinois University, maintains The Mathematical Atlas: A Gateway to Modern Mathematics. This comprehensive atlas is organized in a large hierarchy based on the Mathematics Subject Classification (MSC) of the American Mathematical Society (AMS).

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Frederick W. Chapman, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Waterloo
http://www.scg.uwaterloo.ca/~fwchapman/

Front for the Arxiv and CoRR

My daily routine involves a look at what's new in academic Math via the ArXiv (through the convenient Front interface at UC-Davis), and in academic CS via the lesser-known Computing Research Repository. Actually, I use the nice feature both have to have an email (with links) sent to me every weekday with new posts in my areas of interest.

Google Curriculum search

And Google strikes again. They now have a Curriculum search that is just perfect for hunting down Maple-related resources. Looks like it needs a littel fine-tuning, but it definitely shows promise!

Jim Herod's Lectures on Hilbert Spaces for Science & Engineering

MaplePrimes own Jim Herod has a wonderful set of lecture notes—accompanied by a collection of Maple worksheets—which introduce linear operators on infinite-dimensional Hilbert spaces to beginning graduate students in science and engineering. Entitled Linear Algebra, Infinite Dimensions, and Maple, these notes were developed from a one quarter course which Prof. Herod taught many times at the Georgia Institute of Technology. The notes are very concise and have been refined and improved many times over the years in response to student feedback.

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Frederick W. Chapman, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Waterloo
http://www.scg.uwaterloo.ca/~fwchapman/

Lambda the Ultimate

Lambda the Ultimate is a community site for programming languages. The name comes from The Original 'Lambda Papers' by Guy Steele and Gerald Sussman. Yep, that Guy Steele, co-creator of Scheme, then Java, now working on Fortress. Fortress is intended to be a disruptive technology (like Java was), and is squarely aiming at markets that are currently served by Fortran and Matlab.

Anyways, LtU, as it is known to its users, is all about programming languages. Go on over, and discover some programming languages which are to Java what Maple is to Matlab.

MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive (U. of St. Andrews)

MacTutor archive by John O'Conner and Edmund Robertson, is a very thorough database of biographies, chronologies, etc. It convers ancients to contemporary. There is an immense amount of information and you can easily get lost in this site.

Math/CS Career Advice & Job Listings

Now that you have a shiny new degree in mathematics or computer science, how do you get a job in your field? There are many online resources which can help you succeed in your quest!

These websites offer general advice on getting a job in your field:

These websites maintain current listings of job openings:

  • AMS: MathJobs.Org This wonderful new website manages the entire job application process—from searching through job listings to collecting confidential letters of recommendation to submitting your application materials online!

Please note that a Google.com search may turn up sources of funding and job openings not listed on the websites above. For example, you can search for NSF and NSERC graduate and postdoctoral fellowships; research fellowships in pure mathematics, applied mathematics, computational mathematics, scientific computing, and other fields; opportunities at government research labs and national supercomputing centers; research associate positions at major universities; jobs at technology companies like Maplesoft, Sybase, Research in Motion (RIM), Microsoft, IBM Research, MathWorks, MathSoft, MacKichan Software, Design Science (DSI), Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG), Visual Numerics, SPSS, SAS, Texas Instruments (TI), Hewlett-Packard (HP), Intel, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Google, Yahoo, and many more.

If you are seeking a job in academia, keep in mind that there is a yearly hiring cycle for most academic positions. Application deadlines vary widely, depending on the institution and the type of position. Application materials may be due as early as November or as late as March for tenure-track faculty positions beginning in July, August, or September. In contrast, permanent lecturer positions, visiting faculty positions, and sessional teaching positions may be advertised at almost any time of year, depending on current needs. Since sessional teaching positions may become available on very short notice—and may not even be advertised—it helps to leave your name and credentials with the chairs of local departments to let them know that you are available for part-time teaching as an adjunct lecturer.

Be sure to apply early for academic jobs and allow a substantial amount of time to prepare the required application materials. Postdoctoral positions and tenure-track faculty positions typically require a cover letter, several letters of recommendation, a curriculum vitae, publication list, research statement, and teaching statement. You must plan ahead so that you will be ready to meet application deadlines as they arise.

If I have omitted any major online job resources which you have found useful, please let me know so that I can update this web page. I hope that the resources listed here bring you much success in your job search!

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Frederick W. Chapman, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Waterloo
http://www.scg.uwaterloo.ca/~fwchapman/

MathForum from Drexel University

The Math Forum from Drexel University is a very large, well-organized, collection of links and information on various topics in math research and education. It's collaborative in nature and you can add your suggested links.

MathWorld

MathWorld: the web's most extensive mathematics resource. Created, developed, & nurtured by Eric Weisstein with contributions from the world's mathematical community.

NIST Engineering Statistics Handbook

The NIST Engineering Statistics handbook. It's a comprehensive collection of information on the effective application of statistical methods. Submitted by Mariner.

PlanetMath

In their own words ...

"PlanetMath was conceived by Nathan Egge ("unlord" on PlanetMath) and Aaron Krowne ("akrowne" on PlanetMath-- yours truly) as a project to fill the void for a central repository for mathematical knowledge on the web, with a pedagogical slant. But we realized that we could do it in a way that would make it a community, built by the users, and that the users would be just as valuable as the content itself. There are now many grassroots-content sites like this (Wikipedia, Citeulike, Slashdot, Fark...), and PlanetMath represents a unique kind of hybrid of MathWorld, Wikipedia, and Slashdot concepts. We think that the end result has proven very useful to many people who are interested in learning math, who are already students studying math, or who make their living in mathematical professions."

In other words, it's a math reference site that is highly collaborative in nature. It has been around for a few years now and has accummulated a fairly deep and broad collection of content.

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William Stein's online SAGE/PARI calculators

Sage, and Pari are specialized computer algebra systems. This online tool offers convenient access to these systems.

Great Maple tools and resources

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GR Tensor II

GR Tensor II a Maple package for tensors in general relativity applications. Developed at Queens University, Canada.

Great Collection of Maplets

This page contains a great collection of different Maplets.

Many users will be intersted in the Sudoku maplet.

There are also some other interesting tools and games there.

http://maplenet.msc.uky.edu/maplets/

Maple Application Center

The Maple Application Center is an online archive of Maple application code, worksheet collections, and compilations. It's managed by Maplesoft and over the years, the content has accummulated to thousands of worksheets and tools. Topics range from secondary education to wide range of advanced math topics.

Maple Global Network Group on LinkedIn

I formed the Maple Global Network group on LinkedIn to bring together users, developers, clients, consultants, academics, and professionals worldwide who do technical computing with Maple and related Maplesoft products like MapleSim, Maple T.A., and MapleNet.  (To learn how MaplePrimes and the Maple Global Network complement each other, please see this forum post.)  I cordially invite all MaplePrimes members to join the Maple Global Network today!

Maple package for Stochastic Differential Equations

A Maple package for Stochastic Differential Equations. Developed at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt.

Maple User Group Archive

The Maple User Group mailing list was once the main forum for asking questions and discussing Maple. Eventually the comp.soft-sys.math.maple newsgroup was proposed and the MUG list faded away. Some answers to specific questions are archived here, and all messages from 1998-2003 are available as digests.

Online Maple Bibliography

Maple bibliography maintained by Nelson Beebe of the University of Utah. An online bibliographic database of Maple papers.

Quick Reference Document

For the past decade Doug Meade, at the University of South Carolina, has created and maintained a two-page document with essential Maple commands. The first version was created for Maple V, Release 4, in January 1998. n update has been created for each version of Maple (except Maple 10) as it was released. The document has become pretty stable - hence the omission for Maple 10. Here are links to the complete set of documents he has created

Comments, corrections, and suggestions for improvement are welcomed. Please contact the author by e-mail.

Robert Israel's Maple Advisor Database

Robert Israel's Maple Advisor Database

The Maple V Share Library - Updated to Maple 10

The Maple V Share Library was a wonderful facility for mathematicians comprising some 140 Maple routines, packages and worksheets written by Maple users and contributed freely to the Maple community.
John Maplenut has written a short program which allows the Maple V Share Library for Windows to be accessed directly from all versions of Maple up to and including version 10. You can access the Package from the Maple Application Center or from John Maplenut - Updated Maple V Share Library. The program also works with Mac versions using the "shareman" program, included in the package.

Great Maple user sites

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Alec Mihailovs, Tennessee Tech University

Alec Mihailovs, Tennessee Tech University. Rich collection of links, Alec's own Maple programs, papers on Maple applications, course material for various math courses, and a wide range of other useful information for Maple and non-Maple topics.

David Joyner, US Naval Academy Annapolis

David Joyner, US Naval Academy Annapolis. Useful links to various math topics as well as a good collection of the author’s Maple work including coding theory and cryptography.

Douglas Harder, University of Waterloo

Douglas Harder's Maplesque page contains a number of Maple downloads, including DougsDocumentTools and a binary arithmetic package. He is also the developer of the Quaternions and FuzzySets packages, which are available through MapleConnect.

Edwin Clark's "Maple Experts" list

Edwin Clark of the University of South Florida compiled this nice list of links to the home pages of key people within the Maple communities. Some of these folks are part of the current research network that feeds Maple development. Others are some of the stars of the user community.

Gilberto Urroz, Utah State University (Engineering)

Gilberto Urroz, Utah State University is a prolific Maple user. His Web site contains a wide range of useful resources that he's developed. Of particular interest might be his material in various topics in Civil and Mechanical engineering.

Joe Riel

Joe Riel. Maple packages including Syrup for circuit analysis, Emacs (text editor) modes for Maple, and various other useful Maple utilities.

John Stembridge, University of Michigan Ann Arbor

John Stembridge, University of Michigan Ann Arbor. Maple packages for symmetric functions, posets, root systems, and finite Coxeter groups. A wonderfully entertaining collection of math quotes.

Matthias Kawski, Arizona State University

Matthias Kawski's site contains a rich collection of Maple worksheets and applications. In addition, there is an extensive collection of info and tools for math and other software.

ORCCA (Ontario Research Centre for Computer Algebra)

ORRCA (Ontario Research Centre for Computer Algebra) is a research group drawing from key members of the University of Waterloo and the University of Western Ontario (London) as well as several other prominent universities. This group includes many of the original pioneers of the Maple technology. They are currently one of the most active and largest research groups in Computer Algebra in the world. This Web site give a good overview of the current directions in Computer Algebra.

Robert Israel, University of British Columbia

Robert Israel's homepage contains a number of useful Maple resources, including the Maple Advisor Database.

Roman Pearce, CECM/SFU

Personal website of Roman Pearce, research assistant at the CECM and developer of the PolynomialIdeals Maple package. Posts development code, mostly related to Groebner bases and polynomial systems.

Just for fun

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Is your birthday contained in the digits of Pi?

Find out if your birthday is contained in the digits of Pi. First posted in Will's blog.

math and The Simpsons

Dr. Sarah J. Greenwald, Appalachian State University, and Dr. Andrew Nestler, Santa Monica College have put together a site about mathematics and The Simpsons,including an exhaustive list of all math references on the show, relevant images, and the math background of the writers.

They use this material to introduce concepts, motivate students and reduce math anxiety, apparently. Aside from its potential educational value, it's fun.

See Simpson's Math.

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Math on TV show Numb3rs

Professor Mark Bridges of Northeastern University has been compling a blog of commentary on various mathematical references that one encounters on the TV show Numb3rs. See his BLOG site and a recent news article.

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Mathematics Genealogy Project

Mathematics Genealogy Project at North Dakota State University. Trace your academic pedigree. Most people I know who got their math PhD’s in Western universities seem to some pretty famous names.

Star Links from the University of Virginia (Kevin Bacon)

Star Links from the University of Virginia. A great online version of the very popular concept, degrees of separation from Kevin Bacon.