The following interaction with Maple's Excel link came to my attention today.  I thought it had many interesting points that lead to insights about Excel and Maple that are worth sharing. 

The Maplesoft corporate blog has seen the addition of many interesting new posts recently, and I thought I'd share a few of the most recent ones with MaplePrimes.

Visualizing a Parallel Field in a Curved Manifold
Posted by Robert Lopez, Maple Fellow

Speaking of Languages...
Posted by Tom Lee, Chief Evangelist

An analytical model of mornings in the Wright household
Posted by Derek Wright, Application Engineer

It has been a while since my last post.  I'm sorry about that, but I have been busy trying to the fix bugs reported as part of the Maple Beta program.  I'm also running low of good parallel programming topics.  So, as always, if you have topics you'd like to hear about (or hear more about) feel free to ask.

Today I am going to post a brief note about a blog that I find quite interesting.

Cliff Click Jr's Blog: http://blogs.azulsystems.com/cliff/

Here is the Rossler system, one of the simplest examples of 3 dimensional deterministic chaos (under certain conditions according to "params"). Thanks to Doug and Joe for various assists. Comments and critiques most welcome !

Here's a simple rocket model

I came across the tutorial/manual here, which I found to be most excellent for a beginner in Maple, such as myself:

http://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/courses/2009/moderations/mathematics-maple/exploring-mathematics-maple/material

The page will also be updated with lecture notes and sample code

There was some recent discussion about Maple's Standard GUI having two parsers. (See here, and its parent.)

I've been accumulating a list of some differences between the parsers of 2D Math and 1D Maple notation, for the same given pasted input.

MaplePrimes is a community where thousands of members share their expertise and knowledge of Maplesoft products, and of math & technical topics in general.  To help nurture the environment, and to maintain a quality resource for MaplePrimes members, we have decided to extend content moderation to the community.

I expect that the roles of moderators will evolve as we move forward, but to start, moderator’s will have the following capabilities:

• Remove commercial messages (spam) or otherwise inappropriate or offensive content as described  in the MaplePrimes Community Guidelines.
• Re-categorize posts to the correct forum category.
• Select high quality blog posts or message topics to appear on the front page of MaplePrimes.
• Correct bad formatting within messages.

This blog entry marks two milestones:

• I will report on my visit to Maplesoft as the first MaplePrimes Mentor of the Year
  
• I wll earn my 1000th MaplePrimes "point"

 
Scheduling this visit was a challenge. Each semester I limit the number of classes that I miss for professional travel and I have numerous (and increasing) adminstrative responsibilities as the Undergraduate Director for the Department of Mathematics at The University of South Carolina (particularly during the summer months). These constraints, combined with the various travel schedules of Maplesoft's staff necessitated the deferral of this trip until November 2009. (The additional one month delay in preparing this is due to end-of-semester administrative responsibilities.) I wrote the original draft of this from various airports on my way to the 14th Asian Conference on Technology and Mathematics in Beijing, China and, now that Christmas is history, have some time to finish it.

I realized the other day that I had not mentioned the Threads:-Add, Threads:-Map, Threads:-Mul and Threads:-Seq functions.  These are parallel implementations of the standard Maple functions, add, map, mul and seq.  They expect the sam