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From: Michael on 14 May 2010 06:42
Sorry - this might come up twice - think I hit wrong button.

I gather matlab symbolic toolbox is based on maple engine. Can anyone with maple experience comment on toolboxes capabilities/advantages/disadvantages compared to maple? Is it as powerful as maple (surely not given price)? Is it just a toy for simple stuff? Is it friendlier than maple when it comes to simplifying equations and such things?

Would welcome feedback before investing time in learning yet another tool.

Thanks.
From: Alan Weiss on 14 May 2010 08:32
On 5/14/2010 6:42 AM, Michael wrote:
> Sorry - this might come up twice - think I hit wrong button.
>
> I gather matlab symbolic toolbox is based on maple engine. Can anyone
> with maple experience comment on toolboxes
> capabilities/advantages/disadvantages compared to maple? Is it as
> powerful as maple (surely not given price)? Is it just a toy for simple
> stuff? Is it friendlier than maple when it comes to simplifying
> equations and such things?
>
> Would welcome feedback before investing time in learning yet another tool.
>
> Thanks.

The Symbolic Math Toolbox is no longer based on Maple, but instead uses
MuPAD as the symbolic engine. This means you can use Symbolic Math
Toolbox from within MATLAB, or you can work in a MuPAD Notebook, which
has a different interface that has some advantages for certain types of
work.

I suggest you look at the documentation or marketing material to get an
idea of the types of problems the Symbolic Math Toolbox/ MuPAD
combination addresses:
marketing overview: http://www.mathworks.com/products/symbolic/
documentation for Symbolic Math Toolbox:
http://www.mathworks.com/access/helpdesk/help/toolbox/symbolic/
documentation for MuPAD:
http://www.mathworks.com/access/helpdesk/help/toolbox/mupad/index.html

Alan Weiss
MATLAB mathematical toolbox documentation
From: Michael on 14 May 2010 14:29
Thanks Alan
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