The Essential Tool for Mathematics. Maple is math software that combines the world's most powerful math engine with an interface that makes it extremely easy to analyze, explore, visualize, and solve mathematical problems.

Features:

Solve math problems easily and accurately, without worrying that you've lost a minus sign somewhere

Solve math problems quickly that you could never do by hand (or that you wouldn't want to do by hand because life is too short!)

Solve problems from virtually any branch of mathematics or field that relies on mathematics, such as calculus, algebra, differential equations, statistics, control design, linear algebra, physics, optimization, group theory, differential geometry, signal processing, special functions, number theory, financial modeling, etc. etc.

Gain insight into your problem, solution, data, or concept using a huge variety of customizable 2-D and 3-D plots and animations

Keep problems, solutions, visualizations, and explanations all together in a single, easy-to-follow document, so you don't have to waste time reconstructing your thought processes

Develop complex solutions using a sophisticated programming language designed for mathematics, so your code is shorter, easier to write, easier to debug, and easier to maintain

Create interactive applications for yourself, your students, or your colleagues, without having to be an expert programmer, and share them over the web

What's New in Maple 2018:
Okay, we get it. You love Maple, but some years you find yourself wondering if it's worth the bother of upgrading. People use Maple to do many different things, so it's inevitable that each new release will include some features you care about and some features you really don't need.

But no matter what you use Maple for, this is not a release to skip.
Maple 2018 contains a large number of substantial enhancements to how you interact with Maple, which means you'll benefit from this release no matter what you use Maple for. (These are, of course, in addition to the usual extensive collection of improvements, in mathematics, visualization, specialized application areas, education, and more, some subset of which will be useful, too!)

Do More with Less Effort
The new Context Panel brings together and enhances some of Maple’s most powerful Clickable Math tools, so you can perform even more tasks, even more simply.

Let Maple Keep Track of Your Units
Deeper integration of units into the mathematics engine and improved conversion tools significantly simplify units-based calculations.

Protect Your Content from Changes
Share your work with confidence, knowing that your users will not be able to accidentally change your content (and then complain to you when it doesn’t work!)

Give Your Students More Practice
Give your students endless practice sheets that Maple will grade automatically, so your students get more practice without giving you more work.

Solve More PDEs
Find solutions to new classes of partial differential equations with boundary conditions.

Code Smarter, Not Harder
Whether you are writing two lines or two thousand, significant enhancements to Maple’s code editor makes writing and debugging Maple code much easier.

Streamline Your Application Development
From defining the behavior of your buttons and sliders to changing the appearance of tables, the Context Panel also supports a streamlined workflow that makes creating your own applications a smoother experience.

Encrypt Your Work
Encrypt procedures to hide their definitions from prying eyes while still making them available for use.

Make Sense of Unstructured Data
Use Maple to interpolate and visualize data from even completely unstructured data sources.

Play with Points and Polygons
Apply computational methods to polygons and clouds of points with the new Computational Geometry package.