New in Maple 17
Advanced Code Editor
Streamlined coding environment with syntax highlighting, automatic indenting, command completion, and more
Embedded Video
New video component to enhance documents and applications
Signal Processing
A new package for working with frequency domain analysis, windowing, and more
Performance
Faster parallel programming, floating-point linear algebra, and numerical complex number calculations
Easy App Creation
Easier creation of interactive applications and demonstrations
Embedded Components
New tools for app authoring
Math Apps
Many new apps to engage students with math and science concepts
Clickable MathTM
More Smart Popups for exploring math with only the click of your mouse
Group Theory
New features and functionalities for working with finite groups
Ease of use enhancements
New features to improve the user workflow
Parallelism
Performance gains in every large computation due to introducing parallelism into Maple's memory management system
Language & Programming
Numerous updates to the programming environment, including improved select and remove behavior, assign to protected names, and thread local data
Advanced Math
Improvements to differential equations, graph theory, dynamic systems semi-algebraic system solving, and more
Statistics
Tools for predicitive least squares analysis and other new commands
Differential Geometry
Many new commands and updates including expanded functionalities in Lie Algebras and a new package for Exterior Differential Systems
Physics
New commands in tensor analysis, special and general relativity, as well as a new library of programming commands for Physics
Dynamic Systems
Several updates to dynamic systems and control design
Visualization
New options for plotting inequalities and more
Multivariate Calculus for Students
Lines, planes, and other additions in our Student packages for multivariate calculus
Essay Tools
Automatic essay grading, plagiarism detection, linguistic analysis, and spell-checking
Additional Improvements
Better subscript handling, automatic 3D plots axes, and more
See Also
Index of New Commands and Packages, Compatibility Issues in Maple 17
Download Help Document