An Introduction to Maple for the Calculus I Student

Maple is a symbolic mathematics program which solves problems by moving symbols like you or I would. For example, in solving "2x = 7", Maple rearranges the symbols to produce "x = 7/2". Maple can solve a vast number of problems such as these. Hence, its command language is extensive. For the Calculus I student only a few of these commands are necessary. Following is a list of some of the important ones.

• exp
• sqrt
• simplify
• readlib
• expand
• factor
• solve
• convert
• evalf
• limit
• diff
• sum
• int
• plot
• array
• seq
• fsolve
• proc

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Jo Norby-Davis: jnorbyda@nmu.edu.