Maplesoft Maple 17 mathematical visualisation software

Maplesoft has announced a major release of its flagship product, Maple, the technical computing software for engineers, mathematicians, and scientists. With Maple 17, the company introduces more computation tools and a large collection of enhancements dedicated to supporting the creation of applications.

New functionality includes solving a whole new class of differential equations, major advancements in solving systems of equations, new signal processing tools, and expanded support for physics, statistics and dynamic systems. 

Performance has also been enhanced with improvements to frequently called routines and algorithms as well as in the low-level infrastructure of memory management. One example is a new memory manager, which takes advantages of multiple processors to allow computations to run 10% faster on average, with memory-intensive computations running up to 50% faster.

While the computation engine forms the heart of Maple’s technology, the company has always considered the entire user experience to be important, from the first explorations by a new user to the development of powerful applications by experienced customers. This version introduces further productivity advancements, with special emphasis on application development.  Highlights include: a new advanced code editor to make algorithm development even easier for more complex applications; an embedded video component, for adding rich multimedia content to applications; improved command completion while using math notation; improvements to 2-D and 3-D visualisations; new programming constructs to make it easier to write multithreaded code for parallel execution.