Application Centre shows Maple users how it's done

There's a great new resource on the web for existing and potential users of  the symbolic maths program Maple V. The well presented Maple V Application Centre is designed to demonstrate to prospective users how the application can be used for solving real-world problems in specific areas ­ but it will also be useful to users as a source of examples showing how Maple V can be used.
The Application Centre is a collection of sixty-six Maple V Release 5 worksheets, grouped in the
following categories:

• Control Systems
• Data Analysis
• Economics and Finance
• Electrical & Electronic Engineering
• Fluid Dynamics
• Heat and Thermodynamics
• Manufacturing and Industry
• Maple V Functionality
• Mathematics
• Mechanical Engineering
• Physics and Chemistry
• Programming
• Structural Engineering

There are HTML versions of the worksheets for publishing on the web as well as Maple Explorer versions. The Table of Contents Page also contains links to appropriate sections in the Maple V Share Library, Maple V White Papers and on-line Book Lists. You can access this exciting new resource page through http://maple.adeptscience.co.uk.

Students and departments benefit from site offer

Dozens of academic institutions in the UK have taken up the offer of a Maple V Site Licence, which allows Maple V to be installed on any number of machines around the site. In addition however, a further offer of a licence which enables the institution to distribute copies to students (normally the institution then goes on to set a nominal fee) is being enthusiastically taken up.
At one major UK university, two-thirds of the students on a maths course bought Maple V from their department this way, considerably more than the department expected (it turned out that considerably more students had their own PCs than had been thought!). Not only did the department more than cover its costs, but more importantly there were some benefits which had not been foreseen: less copying (and more individual work), better rates of completion of coursework and less stress on the department's computer facilities. Interesting results...