Hymn to a Maple

A Hymn to Neurosurgery and Neuroscience

June 2005 | Volume 3 | Issue 6 | e214 “Marketeers prove...every scientifi c term you use represents two thousand readers putting down the magazine and turning on a rerun of I Love Lucy,” says a world-weary editor in David Mitchell’s Russian doll of a novel Cloud Atlas. The marketeers of Ian McEwan (if he has any) clearly don’t agree. His latest novel, Saturday, is saturated with medical and sci...

A Christmas hymn.

Angela’s image came in a rush, escaping the repressed confines of Loretta’s subconscious. She appeared as an emaciated youth, track marks on her arms, eyes blank and cadaverous — as if she had come home one last time, still stinking and sleep-deprived after a stint on Godknows-which downtown street. Sitting in her rocking chair, Loretta stopped knitting and set aside the almost-finished sweater...

A Tutorial Introduction to Maple

The Maple computer algebra system is described . Brief sample sessions show the user syntax and the mathematical power of the system for performing arithmetic, factoring, simplification, differentiation, integration, summation, solving algebraic equations, solving differential equations, series expansions, and matrix manipulations . Time and space statistics for each sample session show that th...

Maple link to grid

One of the developments that can lead to a wider usage of grids technologies is grid-enabling of computer algebra systems. Several software packages allow nowadays the remote execution of non-proprietary or legacy codes. The common facilities and limitations of those packages are analyzed here. A pattern is establish in the construction of a grid-enabled version of a computer algebra system, ap...

Epiphany in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter and the Odyssey