No 1001 (00016)

Family name : Aladjev
Given name : Victor .Z.
Affiliation : International Academy of Noosphere
Abbreviation : 
E-mail address : aladjev@lenta.ru
Title : Systems of Computer Algebra: New Software ToolBox for Maple
Authors : Victor Aladjev 
Abstract : 
    This paper is based on our previous monograph whose pressrun was
completely sold out. The paper presents a Library for the moder computer
algebra system Maple of releases 6 - 9, expanding its basic tools.
Source codes of the Library tools introduce the reader into both
effective and non-standard programming technique in Maple.  The reader
should have a background in Maple of any release.

    The tools represented in the paper increase the range and efficiency 
of use of the package on the Windows platform owing to the innovations in
three basic directions: (1) elimination of a series of basic defects and
shortcomings, (2) expansion of capabilities of a series of standard
tools and (3) replenishment of the package by new means which increase
capabilities of its program environment, including the means which
improve the level of compatibility of releases 6, 7, 8 and 9.  The basic
attention is devoted to additional tools created in the process of
practical use and testing the packages of releases 4-8 which by some
parameters expand essentially the opportunities of the package and
facilitate the work with it.  The considerable attention is also devoted
to the means providing packages compatibility of releases 6, 7, 8 and 9.
The experience in the use of given software was confirmed its high
operational characteristics at use of Maple in numerous appendices.

    The above software had been organized into the user Library whose a
current version contains tools (more than 400 procedures and program
modules) which are oriented upon wide enough sphere of computing and
information processing.  The Library is structurally similar to the main
Maple library and is supplied with the advanced Help system about the
tools located in it.  In addition, it is logically connected with the
main Maple library, providing access to the tools contained in it
similarly to the package tools.  The simple guide describes the
installation of the Library at presence on PC with Windows platform of
installed Maple package of releases 6, 7 or 8.

    The Library is designed for a wide audience of experts, teachers,
post-graduates and students of natural-science professions who use Maple
of releases 6, 7 and 8 on Windows platform in their own professional
work.  The Library contains well-designed software (a set of procedures
and program modules), which supplements well the already available Maple
software with the orientation towards the widest circle of the Maple
users, greatly enhancing its usability and effectiveness.  Our experience
reveals that the use of Library creates more opportunities of Maple of
releases 6, 7 and 8, simplifying the programming of various practical
problems in its environment.  This Library will present special interest
above all for  those who use Maple not only as a highly intellectual
calculator but also as environment for programming of different problems
in one's own professional activity.  The paper will be interesting for
scientists, researchers, candidates for doctor's or master's degree in
the field of computer algebra systems, and experts and researchers in
other areas of physics and mathematics who use computer algebra systems
in own professional activity.