aroche

Ask a Question

Create a Post

Name: Dr. Austin Roche

10 Badges

Member for: 12 years, 222 days

Company/Institution: Maplesoft

Location: Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Contact Dr. Austin Roche

I am a Software Architect in the Math Group, working mostly on the Maple library. I have been working at Maplesoft since 2007, in various areas including differential equations, integration, mathematical functions, simplification, root finding, and logic. I completed a Master's degree from McGill University with a thesis in Differential Geometry, and a PhD from Simon Fraser University with a thesis on Differential Equations.

MaplePrimes Activity

These are Posts that have been published by aroche

Announcing the Maple Customer Support Up...

Posted: aroche 765 Product: Maple 2025

April 22 2025

12 22

Maplesoft now has a new approach to providing customer support for Maple users! The Maple Customer Support Updates allows Maplesoft to provide important updates to our customers as fast as possible. These updates contain a series of improvements and fixes to any area of the Maple library, enabling a rapid response for customer reports and requests. When a Maple user reports a bug or weakness, or requests some missing functionality that can be addressed with an update to the Maple library, such an update can now be provided immediately after the fix or improvement is developed. Furthermore, the update will not just be available to that customer who reported it, but also to any other Maple users who wishes to use them. Of course, not all reports will be able to be addressed quickly, and for those that are, it will be up to the developer's discretion whether to make the fix or improvement available via these new Maple Customer Support Updates. Please note that these Updates may contain experimental elements that could change in subsequent official releases.

The updates are available as a workbook containing a Maple library file that can be downloaded and installed from the Maple Cloud. To install the Maple Customer Support Updates from the Maple Cloud,

Click the MapleCloud icon in the upper-right corner of the Maple GUI window and select Packages.
Find the Maple Customer Support Updates package and click the Install button, the last one under Actions.
To check for new versions of Maple Customer Support Updates, click the MapleCloud icon and select Updates. If the cloud icon in the Actions column of Maple Customer Support Updates has the word Update beside it, then you can click on it to download a new update.

To make the process of installing and maintaining the Maple Customer Support Updates as smooth as possible, we've also introduced a new Maple library package, SupportTools, with 3 commands, Update, Version, and RemoveUpdates.

Load the SupportTools package:

(1)

Check which version is currently installed:

$`The Customer Support Updates version in the MapleCloud is 10. The version installed in this computer is 9 created April 22, 2025, 15:14 hours Eastern Time, found in the directory C:\Users\Austin\Maple\toolbox\2025\Maple Customer Support Updates\lib\Maple`$

(2)

Update to the latest version (you could also call Update(latest)):

Warning, You have just upgraded from version 9 to version 10 of the Customer Support Updates. In order to have this version active, please close Maple entirely, then open Maple and enter SupportTools:-Version() to confirm the active version.

Check the version again:

(3)

Remove all updates for this release of Maple (except for those installing the SupportTools package itself):

Warning, You have just reverted to version 4 of the Customer Support Updates. This version contains no actual updates other than the SupportTools package itself. In order to verify this, please close Maple entirely, then open Maple and enter SupportTools:-Version() to verify that the version number is 4.

Note: You can also specify which version to install by supplying the version number as the argument to the Update command:

Warning, You have just upgraded from version 4 to version 10 of the Customer Support Updates. In order to have this version active, please close Maple entirely, then open Maple and enter SupportTools:-Version() to confirm the active version.

Download SupportTools.mw

In Maple 2025.0, the SupportTools package is not installed by default. For the first installation, you can also run the command
PackageTools:-Install(4797495082876928); instead of installing it from the Maple Cloud.

The Maple Customer Support Updates were inspired by and modelled after the existing Physics Updates which many Maple users may be famiilar with already. Going forward, Physics Updates will only contain changes to the Physics package itself. All other library updates will be available via the Maple Customer Support Updates. For compatibility with the pre-existing Physics:-Version command, calling SupportTools:-Version(n) is equivalent to calling SupportTools:-Update(n), and similarly SupportTools:-Version(latest) and SupportTools:-Update(latest) are both equivalent to the single call SupportTools:-Update().

Introducing VerifyTools...

Posted: aroche 765 Product: Maple

August 21 2024

5 2

VerifyTools is a package that has been available in Maple for roughly 24 years, but until now it has never been documented, as it was originally intended for internal use only. Documentation for it will be included in the next release of Maple. Here is a preview:

VerifyTools is similar to the TypeTools package. A type is essentially a predicate that a single expression can either satisfy or not. Analogously, a verification is a predicate that applies to a pair of expressions, comparing them. Just as types can be combined to produce compound types, verifications can also be combined to produce compund verifications. New types can be created, retrieved, queried, or deleted using the commands AddType, GetType (or GetTypes), Exists, and RemoveType, respectively. Similarly in the VerifyTools package we can create, retrieve, query or delete verifications using AddVerification, GetVerification (or GetVerifications), Exists, and RemoveVerification.

The package command VerifyTools:-Verify is also available as the top-level Maple command verify which should already be familiar to expert Maple users. Similarly, the command VerifyTools:-IsVerification is also available as a type, that is,

VerifyTools:-IsVerification(ver);

will return the same as

type(ver, 'verification');

The following examples show what can be done with these commands. Note that in each example where the Verify command is used, it is equivalent to the top-level Maple command verify. (Also note that VerifyTools commands shown below will be slightly different compared to the Maple2024 version):

>	with(VerifyTools):

Suppose we want to create a verification which will checks that the length of a result has not increased compared to the expected result. We can do this using the AddVerification command:

>	AddVerification(length_not_increased, (a, b) -> evalb(length(a) <= length(b)));

First, we can check the existence of our new verification and get its value:

>	Exists(length_not_increased);

>	GetVerification(length_not_increased);

For named verifications, IsVerification is equivalent to Exists (since names are only recognized as verifications if an entry exists for them in the verification database):

>	IsVerification(length_not_increased);

On the other hand, a nontrivial structured verification can be checked with IsVerification,

>	IsVerification(boolean = length_not_increased);

whereas Exists only accepts names:

>	Exists(boolean = length_not_increased);

Error, invalid input: VerifyTools:-Exists expects its 1st argument, x, to be of type symbol, but received boolean = length_not_increased

The preceding command using Exists is also equivalent to the following type call:

>	type(boolean = length_not_increased, verification);

Now, let's use the new verification:

>	Verify(x + 1/x, (x^2 + 1)/x, length_not_increased);

>	Verify((x^2 + 1)/x, x + 1/x, length_not_increased);

Finally, let's remove the verification:

>	RemoveVerification(length_not_increased);

>	Exists(length_not_increased);

>	GetVerification(length_not_increased);

Error, (in VerifyTools:-GetVerification) length_not_increased is not a recognized verification

GetVerifications returns the list of all verifications known to the system:

>	GetVerifications();

Download VerificationTools_blogpost.mw

Austin Roche
Software Architect
Mathematical Software
Maplesoft

New and improved integration results in ...

Posted: aroche 765 Product: Maple 2016

March 11 2016

12 16

The attached worksheet shows a small selection of new and improved results in integration for Maple 2016. Note that integration is a vast topic, so there will always be more improvements that can be made, but be sure that we are working on them.

Maple2016_Integration.mw

A selection of new and improved integration results for Maple 2016

New answers in Maple 2016

Indefinite integrals:

>	int(sqrt(1+sqrt(z-1)), z);

(1.1)

>	int(arctan((-1+sec(x))^(1/2))*sin(x), x);

-arctan((-(1/sec(x)-1)*sec(x))^(1/2))/sec(x)+(1/2)*(-1+sec(x))^(1/2)/sec(x)+(1/2)*arctan((-1+sec(x))^(1/2))

(1.2)

>	int(((1+exp(Ix))^2+(1+exp(-Ix))^2)/(1-2ccos(x)+c^2), x);

-x-2*x/c-x/c^2+I*exp(I*x)/c-I*exp(-I*x)/c-I*c*ln(exp(I*x)-1/c)/(c-1)-I*ln(exp(I*x)-1/c)/(c-1)-I*ln(exp(I*x)-1/c)/(c*(c-1))-I*ln(exp(I*x)-1/c)/(c^2*(c-1))+I*c*ln(-c+exp(I*x))/(c-1)+I*ln(-c+exp(I*x))/(c-1)+I*ln(-c+exp(I*x))/(c*(c-1))+I*ln(-c+exp(I*x))/(c^2*(c-1))

(1.3)

>	int(x^4/arccos(x)^(3/2),x);

(1/4)*(-x^2+1)^(1/2)/arccos(x)^(1/2)-(1/4)*2^(1/2)*Pi^(1/2)*FresnelC(2^(1/2)*arccos(x)^(1/2)/Pi^(1/2))+(3/8)*sin(3*arccos(x))/arccos(x)^(1/2)-(3/8)*2^(1/2)*Pi^(1/2)*3^(1/2)*FresnelC(2^(1/2)*3^(1/2)*arccos(x)^(1/2)/Pi^(1/2))+(1/8)*sin(5*arccos(x))/arccos(x)^(1/2)-(1/8)*2^(1/2)*Pi^(1/2)*5^(1/2)*FresnelC(2^(1/2)*5^(1/2)*arccos(x)^(1/2)/Pi^(1/2))

(1.4)

Definite integrals:

>	int(arcsin(sin(z)), z=0..1);

(1.5)

>	int(sqrt(1 - sqrt(1+z)), z=0..1);

(1.6)

>	int(z/(exp(2z)+4exp(z)+10),z = 0 .. infinity);

(1/20)*dilog((I*6^(1/2)-3)/(-2+I*6^(1/2)))-((1/60)*I)*6^(1/2)*dilog((I*6^(1/2)-3)/(-2+I*6^(1/2)))+(1/20)*dilog((I*6^(1/2)+3)/(2+I*6^(1/2)))+((1/60)*I)*6^(1/2)*dilog((I*6^(1/2)+3)/(2+I*6^(1/2)))+((1/120)*I)*6^(1/2)*ln(2+I*6^(1/2))^2-((1/120)*I)*6^(1/2)*ln(2-I*6^(1/2))^2+(1/40)*ln(2+I*6^(1/2))^2+(1/40)*ln(2-I*6^(1/2))^2+(1/60)*Pi^2

(1.7)

>	simplify(int(sinh(a*abs(x-y)), y=0..c, 'method'='FTOC'));

(1/2)*(piecewise(x < 0, 0, 0 <= x, 2*exp(-a*x))+piecewise(x < 0, 0, 0 <= x, -4)+2*piecewise(c <= x, -cosh(a*(-x+c))/a, x < c, (cosh(a*(-x+c))-2)/a)*a-exp(-a*x)+piecewise(x < 0, 0, 0 <= x, 2*exp(a*x))+4-exp(a*x))/a

(1.8)

>	int(ln(x+y)/(x^2+y), [x=0..infinity, y=0..infinity]);

(1.9)

Definite integrals with assumptions on the parameters:

>	int(x^(-ln(x)),x=0..b) assuming b > 0;

(1/2)*erf(ln(b)-1/2)*Pi^(1/2)*exp(1/4)+(1/2)*Pi^(1/2)*exp(1/4)

(1.10)

>	int(exp(-z)exp(-Inz)cos(n*z),z = -infinity .. infinity) assuming n::integer;

(1.11)

Integral of symbolic integer powers of sin(x) or cos(x):

>	int(sin(x)^n,x) assuming n::integer;

` piecewise`(0 < n, -(Sum((Product(1+1/(n-2*j), j = 1 .. i))*sin(x)^(n-2*i-1), i = 0 .. ceil((1/2)*n)-1))*cos(x)/n+(Product(1-1/(n-2*j), j = 0 .. ceil((1/2)*n)-1))*x, n < 0, (Sum((Product(1-1/(n+2*j+1), j = 0 .. i))*sin(x)^(n+2*i+1), i = 0 .. -ceil((1/2)*n)-1))*cos(x)/n+(Product(1+1/(n+2*j-1), j = 1 .. -ceil((1/2)*n)))*ln(csc(x)-cot(x)), x)

(1.12)

>	int(cos(x)^n,x) assuming n::negint;

-(Sum((Product(1-1/(n+2*j+1), j = 0 .. i))*cos(x)^(n+2*i+1), i = 0 .. -ceil((1/2)*n)-1))*sin(x)/n+(Product(1+1/(n+2*j-1), j = 1 .. -ceil((1/2)*n)))*ln(sec(x)+tan(x))

(1.13)

>	int(cos(x)^n,x) assuming n::posint;

(Sum((Product(1+1/(n-2*j), j = 1 .. i))*cos(x)^(n-2*i-1), i = 0 .. ceil((1/2)*n)-1))*sin(x)/n+(Product(1-1/(n-2*j), j = 0 .. ceil((1/2)*n)-1))*x

(1.14)

Improved answers in Maple 2016

>	int(sqrt(1+sqrt(x)), x);

(2.1)

>	int(sqrt(1+sqrt(1+z)), z= 0..1);

(2.2)

>	int(signum(z^k)*exp(-z^2), z=-infinity..infinity) assuming k::real;

(2.3)

>	int(2abs(sin(xp)*sin(x)), x = 0 .. Pi) assuming p> 1;

-2*(sin(Pi*p)*signum(sin(Pi*p))*cos(Pi/p)-p*sin(Pi/p)*cos(Pi*(floor(p)+1)/p)+sin(Pi*(floor(p)+1)/p)*cos(Pi/p)*p-sin(Pi*p)*signum(sin(Pi*p))-sin(Pi*(floor(p)+1)/p)*p+sin(Pi/p)*p)/((cos(Pi/p)-1)*(p^2-1))

(2.4)

>	int(1/(x^4-x+1), x = 0 .. infinity);

-(sum(ln(-_R)/(4*_R^3-1), _R = RootOf(_Z^4-_Z+1)))

(2.5)

In Maple 2016, this multiple integral is computed over 3 times faster than it was in Maple 2015.

>	int(exp(abs(x1-x2))exp(abs(x1-x3))exp(abs(x3-x4))*exp(abs(x4-x2)), [x1=0..R, x2=0..R, x3=0..R, x4=0..R], AllSolutions) assuming R>0;

(2.6)

Austin Roche
Mathematical Software, Maplesoft

Integration Variables in Maple...

Posted: aroche 765

November 14 2014

2 4

A customer on Twitter recently asked why Maple gives the following result:

The issue here is that the in is the same as the integration variable. 140 characters is not a lot to work with for a reply, so here is a longer explanation.

First, note that the process of integration treats the integration variable differently than the other variables, so that replacing another variable by the integration variable has a different effect depending on whether the replacement is done before or after the integration is performed. Consider this simple example:

(4)

(5)

(6)

(7)

In other words, integration does not commute with substitution. This is a fundamental property of integration and in fact, Maple's eval has special rules to take this into account when you ask it to replace the integration variable. For example, if you evaluate the inert form of the integral at , the substitution is performed explicitly: