Abstract :
Two venerable math programs keep up with the times - Born in the 1980s, Maple and Mathematica antedate many readers of IEEE Spectrum. Over time, both programs have evolved into do-it-all math platforms, with thousands of numerical and symbolic math functions, extensive capabilities for graphics and documents, and much more. With their latest updates, Mathematica 8 and Maple 15, the companies have added many more goodies to already very large and polished packages.
