http://www.mapleprimes.com/posts/119759-Computer-Algebra-Using-Maple-As-Taught-By-The-Open-University- en-us 2026 Maplesoft, A Division of Waterloo Maple Inc. Maplesoft Document System Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:37:57 GMT Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:37:57 GMT The latest comments added to the Post, Computer Algebra using Maple, as taught by The Open University (UK) http://www.mapleprimes.com/images/mapleprimeswhite.jpg http://www.mapleprimes.com/posts/119759-Computer-Algebra-Using-Maple-As-Taught-By-The-Open-University- http://www.mapleprimes.com/posts/119759-Computer-Algebra-Using-Maple-As-Taught-By-The-Open-University-?ref=Feed:MaplePrimes:Computer Algebra using Maple, as taught by The Open University (UK):Comments#comment119762 <p>Nice summary. This is helpful as I have thought about teaching a course with some of these elements.</p> <p>Thank you for the kind words about the book I co-authored with Mike May, C-K Chung, and G. E. Keough: <a href="http://www.mapleprimes.com/posts/37650-Getting-Started-With-Maple-3rd-Ed">Getting Started with Maple, 3rd ed.</a>, Wiley, 2009.</p> <!--break--> <p>Doug</p> <pre>--------------------------------------------------------------------- Douglas B. Meade &lt;&gt;&lt; Math, USC, Columbia, SC 29208 E-mail: mailto:meade@math.sc.edu Phone: (803) 777-6183 URL: http://www.math.sc.edu </pre> The latest comments added to the Post, Computer Algebra using Maple, as taught by The Open University (UK) 119762 Tue, 10 May 2011 00:16:07 Z Doug Meade Doug Meade http://www.mapleprimes.com/posts/119759-Computer-Algebra-Using-Maple-As-Taught-By-The-Open-University-?ref=Feed:MaplePrimes:Computer Algebra using Maple, as taught by The Open University (UK):Comments#comment119785 <p>exciting stuff Rob, thanks for the report!</p> The latest comments added to the Post, Computer Algebra using Maple, as taught by The Open University (UK) 119785 Tue, 10 May 2011 22:02:31 Z PatrickT PatrickT http://www.mapleprimes.com/posts/119759-Computer-Algebra-Using-Maple-As-Taught-By-The-Open-University-?ref=Feed:MaplePrimes:Computer Algebra using Maple, as taught by The Open University (UK):Comments#comment119953 <p>It looks a interesting course. Can you explain me the method for calculting Ljapunow exponent ?</p> The latest comments added to the Post, Computer Algebra using Maple, as taught by The Open University (UK) 119953 Tue, 17 May 2011 21:40:10 Z JoeKing JoeKing http://www.mapleprimes.com/posts/119759-Computer-Algebra-Using-Maple-As-Taught-By-The-Open-University-?ref=Feed:MaplePrimes:Computer Algebra using Maple, as taught by The Open University (UK):Comments#comment119963 <p>It is interesting that some of UK schools still use Maple. In my Engineering Differential Equations course last year, with 3 regular hours and 1 lab/week at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, I used Matlab (which was required) and Mathematica. In addition to the regular homework (handwritten), it had 3 midterms and the final also handwritten and done in a regular classroom and 3 small projects and 1 large project done "at home" (actually, in the computer lab, but not in our class time) using Matlab and Mathematica. I couldn't use Maple even if I wanted to because it was not installed there.</p> <p>It would be interesting to teach a course of "mathematician's tools" covering LaTeX, some basic Linux including shell programming and awk, Python and Sage, and a survey of Matlab, Mathematica, and Maple, plus optionally some HTML, Javascript, C, and assembly if time permits (I'd certainly like to include some other stuff, too - such as Visual Studio and C#, but it would require more time than 3 or 4 hours/week).&nbsp; It would be hard, probably, to do usual midterms and the final in it though, because they couldn't be done in a regular classroom, without computers, and couldn't be done in a lab because some of the best students may be slow and won't be able to finish in time.</p> <!--break--> <p>_______________<br> Alec Mihailovs, PhD</p> The latest comments added to the Post, Computer Algebra using Maple, as taught by The Open University (UK) 119963 Wed, 18 May 2011 02:46:11 Z Alec Mihailovs Alec Mihailovs http://www.mapleprimes.com/posts/119759-Computer-Algebra-Using-Maple-As-Taught-By-The-Open-University-?ref=Feed:MaplePrimes:Computer Algebra using Maple, as taught by The Open University (UK):Comments#comment119969 <p>@Alec ... Not meaning to sound offensive&nbsp;...&nbsp;but you sound as if Maple in the Uk were passe or a thing of the past.&nbsp; "It is interesting to note that some of UK schools still use Maple."&nbsp;</p> <p>The U.S. is very Matlab, Mathematica biased.&nbsp; Many people there haven't even heard of Maple let alone Canada or even that Canadians don't actually live in igloos haha.&nbsp;</p> <p>It is unfortunate that more universities don't adopt the Maple platform.&nbsp; I suppose it's up to us the user to show what Maple can do better.</p> The latest comments added to the Post, Computer Algebra using Maple, as taught by The Open University (UK) 119969 Wed, 18 May 2011 04:56:21 Z Christopher2222 Christopher2222 http://www.mapleprimes.com/posts/119759-Computer-Algebra-Using-Maple-As-Taught-By-The-Open-University-?ref=Feed:MaplePrimes:Computer Algebra using Maple, as taught by The Open University (UK):Comments#comment119972 <p><a href="http://www.mapleprimes.com/posts/119759-Computer-Algebra-Using-Maple-As-Taught-By-The-Open-University-#comment119969">@Christopher2222</a>&nbsp;</p> <p>The problems with using Maple in teaching in the US are not related to Maple being Canadian or Japanese, I think. Some schools are using it traditionally - Tennessee Tech, for instance.</p> <p>I don't think that many of us think that Canadians live in igloos. There is an old joke</p> <blockquote> <p>"- Do you know what Americans think about Canadians?</p> <p>- They don't."</p> </blockquote> <p>The word "Americans" here means the USA citizens.</p> <p>What is better for teaching, Maple or Mathematica, generally, depends mostly on the instructor preference. Some people prefer Mathematica, others - Maple. I don't have a statistics showing which is used more. In some cases it may be a department's chair preference.</p> <p>In my case - Wolfram Research sent me a complimentary copy of Mathematica, and Maplesoft didn't send me (or offered a download link to) complimentary copies of Maple 13, 14, 15, so the last Maple version that I used in teaching was Maple 12, which I received complimentary from Maplesoft.</p> <p>Alec</p> The latest comments added to the Post, Computer Algebra using Maple, as taught by The Open University (UK) 119972 Wed, 18 May 2011 05:38:05 Z Alec Mihailovs Alec Mihailovs