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This chapter shows how to get started in Maple, gives some sample sessions, discusses some common difficulties and errors, and lays a firm groundwork for more advanced use of Maple. Most important are sections 1.1 to 1.5—the others can be read after you skim the rest of the book.
‘But the mad will ne’er content, till he shall have patterned out to his own most mathematical likings the unpeerable inventions of God...’
—E. R. Eddison, A Fish Dinner in Memison, p. 146.
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Corless, R.M. (1995). Basics. In: Essential Maple. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-3985-5_1
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