Maple What is the best textbook for learning how to use MAPLE?

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The discussion focuses on essential topics for learning Maple, a powerful mathematical software. Key areas include mastering basic arithmetic operations, understanding functions and their applications, and grasping fundamental calculus concepts such as limits, differentiation, and integration. Participants emphasize the importance of working with collections of expressions, including sequences, sets, and lists, as well as manipulating these structures effectively. The conversation also highlights the handling of complex numbers and equations, distinguishing between exact and approximate solutions. Additionally, plotting various types of functions, including parametric and polar plots, is discussed, alongside the significance of linear algebra, particularly in creating and manipulating vectors and matrices and performing operations like Gaussian elimination.
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I have to learn how to use it for:
1. The Basics: arithmetic operations, brackets, constants and variables.
2. Functions: expressions vs functions, Maple's functions, substituting in an expression, piecewise defined functions, simplifying an expression.
3. Basic Calculus: limits, differentiation, maxima and minima, integration.
4. Collections of Expressions: Maple sequences, sets and lists, sums and products, manipulating Maple structures.
5. Complex Numbers and Equations: complex numbers, equations, exact and approximate solutions.
6. Plotting: plotting functions of one variable, parametric plots, polar plots, implicit plots, data plots.
7. Linear Algebra: creating and manipulating vectors and matrices, vector and matrix operations, Gaussian elimination
 
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