Maple 9 Learning Guide - Maplesoft

4 • Chapter 1: Introduction to MapleInteractive Problem-Solving Environment Maple allows you to undertakelarge problems and eliminates your mechanical errors. The interfaceprovides documentation of the steps involved in finding your result. Itallows you to easily modify a step or insert a new one in your solutionmethod. With minimal effort you can compute the new result.Generating Technical Documents You can create interactive structureddocuments for presentations or publication that contain mathematics inwhich you can change an equation and update the solution automatically.You also can display plots. In addition, you can structure your documentsby using tools such as outlining, styles, and hyperlinks. Outlining allowsyou to collapse sections to hide regions that contain distracting detail.Styles identify keywords, headings, and sections. Hyperlinks allow you tocreate live references that take the reader directly to pages containing relatedinformation. The interactive nature of Maple allows you to computeresults and answer questions during presentations. You can clearly andeffectively demonstrate why a seemingly acceptable solution method is inappropriate,or why a particular modification to a manufacturing processwould lead to loss or profit. Since components of worksheets are directlyassociated with the structure of the document, you can easily translateyour work to other formats, for example, HTML, RTF, and L A TEX.