I teach math at the high school level.

I am worried that Maple 2025 appears to be slower than Maple 2024 - in particular for students with older, less strong laptops.

Maple 2025 takes 50% longer to start than Maple 2024 (or Maple 2025 Screen Reader which I expect to be using).

So, on more sluggist student laptops I fear the slowness overall will be an issue - in particular as Maple regularly has to be shutdown and restarted for some of those students.

Further, I really miss the "recompute section !" and the "magniffy" icons on the quest access bar. Having "recompute entire worksheet !!!" seems unwise though. I wish you could costumize the quest access bar.

Overall, from a teaching point of view, I am not at all impressed, sadly.

Just an observation.

I was wondering if less obvious errors than in the below can be avoided with future versions of the AI assistant. Maybe a warning that a formula uses special Maple symbols is possible.

Formulas without dimensions are more susceptible to undetected errors.

Download AI_formula_assistant.mw

P.S.:

This is a real example that happend to me where I did not notice the minus sign in Maples output in equation (1). The error  can easily be fixed by adding "local I" as the first statement of the document and the deflection becomes 1 mm.

fyi, there is new video showing Maple's 2025 new interface

It seems oriented to document mode which I do not use. May be they also improved worksheet mode.

I am still getting my Maple desktop getting shuffled few times each day where I have to close Maple and reopen it to clear it. I hope they fixed this in the new interface.,

To Maplesoft,

Please consider changing the name from Maple to something else.

It is almost impossible to search for anything related to maple, since google keeps giving results about trees called Maple in Canada and about some maple syrup products which I have no interest in at all.

One has to go through pages and pages of links looking for a real Maple software hit.

I know the name Maple has been around for long time, but a new unique name will make searching easier and people will get used to the new name very quickly (may be in 1-2 years).

Some examples:

I know when Maple was created almost 40 years ago, the inernet itself was not even here (I forgot when VP. Gore created the internet but I think that was in early 90's), and search was not thought about then.

But these days, the ability to search for something and to easily find it is very important for companies and having a unique name for Maple will make it also much more popular and easier to find things about it instead of finding  information about Maple syrup and Maple trees all the time.

This is posted  under product suggestions.

Greetings, dear Maple developers!

I, Yegor Volovodenko, together with my supervisor, Igor Zinoviev, Associate Professor, Head of the Department of General Mathematics at ZNU, am conducting research on ‘Solving equations and inequalities of elementary mathematics by means of computer mathematics: opportunities, problems and ways to solve them’. I express my sincere gratitude for your work on the development and popularisation of mathematics, for the constant improvement and enhancement of CAS in particular.

Unfortunately, during the study, we found some, in our opinion, shortcomings in the work of Maxima algorithms for solving elementary equations and inequalities

1. Solving equations with parameters;
   
   
   
   In these two cases, the solution obtained is formal, without analysing the cases when the coefficient of a variable is zero. Thus, not all solutions of equations with a parameter are obtained. I believe that if the user is not familiar with the methodology for solving equations with parameters, he or she may lose some solutions that may be important for further work. So the solution can be considered incomplete.

1. Solving equations with two variables.
    

In the equation with two variables, the answer was given in complex numbers, which is incomprehensible to a person who is not familiar with complex numbers. There are also comments on the course of the solution, in this equation it was necessary to select the square of the difference, and then solve the equation x^2+(y-2)^2=0, getting x=0, y=2.

I hope that the results I have obtained (the identified shortcomings) will help to correct the work of the algorithms and improve the work of the Maple system.

Sincerely, Yegor Volovodenko, Igor Zinoviev.

Try it yourself, you will understand what I mean. (MF2024.2.1)

Referring to the screenshots, "J" can be converted to "N m" in MF2024.1, but not in M2024.2.
Is this some sort of bug in M2024.2?

With the new release of Maple Flow 2024.2 the units "Area" and "Speed" don't work.

I run a MaxBook Pro with macOS Sequoia 15.2 and uninstalled MF2024.2.

I am a new user of Maple Flow 2024.2.

Since I installed this version I got trouble with the following commands:

solve(x^3-2x^2+3x-2)=1.00.  Just 1 root is returned

fsolve((x-2)(x+3)(x-1))=-3.  Just 1 root is returned

ifactors(3024)=.   Maple Flow latch in and crashes without errot massage

seq(i^2,i=1..5)=. Sequence not executed

subs(...)= Substitute not executed

Optimization:-Minimize(...)=.  Latch in, error

With the help of the Maplesoft-Team I uninstalled and installed several times MF on a MacBook Pro Sequoia 15.2 and on a MacBook Pro Ventura 13.7.2 with and without Firewall and McAfee. 
No success, the problems still remain.

I'll no longer use Maple Flow in this version.
I expect a new update asap!

I think a new integer subtype is needed: integer greater than one, gtoint.

isgto := proc(x::anything)
  local X;
  X:=x;
  return type(X,integer) and (X>1);
end:

AddType(gtoint,z->not isgto(z));

Major deficiency in Physics[Vectors]; Distinct sets of basis vectors are not recognized!

You can't define vectors in alternative bases like: {\hat{i}',\hat{j}',\hat{k}'} or {\hat{i}_{1},\hat{j}_{2},\hat{k}_{3}}.

This deficiency has been around for a while. I have found other posts regarding this problem.

The deficiency greatly reduces the allowable calculations with Physics[Vector].

Are there any plans to fix this?

Here is my example which shows this deficiency in more detail.

physics_vectors_and_multiple_unit_vectors.mw
 

Download physics_vectors_and_multiple_unit_vectors.mw

This post is about the visualization of a gyroscopic phenomenon of a rotating body. MapleSim models and a description for those who do not have MapleSim are provided for their own analysis. Implementation with other tools like Maple might give further insight into the phenomenon.

With appropriate initial conditions, a ball thrown into a tube can pop out of the tube. This can be reproduced with a MapleSim model

Throwing_a_ball_into_a_tube_A.msim

To hit a perfect shot without trial and error, time reversal was applied for the model (reversed calculation results of a ball exiting the tube are used as initial conditions for the shot). This worked straight away and shows that this model is sufficiently conservative.

This phenomenon has recently attracted attention on YouTube. For example, Steve Mold demonstrates the effect and provides an intuitive explanation which he considers incomplete because the resulting vertical oscillation of the ball does not match theory and his experiments. He suspects that the assumption of a constant axis of rotation of the ball is responsible for this discrepancy.

However, he cannot demonstrate a change of the axis of rotation. In general, the visualization of the rotation axis of a ball is difficult to achieve in an experiment. On the contrary, visualization is much easier in a simulation experiment with this model:

Throwing_a_ball_into_a_tube_B.msim

The following can be observed for a trajectroy that does not exit the tube:

At the apex (the top) of the trajectory, the vector of rotation (red bold in the following images) points downwards and is essentially parallel to the axis of the cylinder. The graph to the left shows the vertical (in green) position and one horizontal position (in red). The model applies gravity in negative y direction.