As I have stated "a few times" here on Maple Primes, I've written a new book with Nic Fillion on perturbation methods.  The book will be published by SIAM early next year.  To help market the book, I sent several images to my editor who asked her team to make a desk calendar out of them.  The PDF for that is

here at this link to my web page at github

I had fun making the images, in Maple, and the QR code on the calendar links to a Maple Transactions paper that describes each of the images.  To save you struggling with your QR code reader, here is a link to that paper.

Best wishes for the season and for 2026.

The Autumn Issue is now up, at mapletransactions.org

This issue contains two Featured Contributions; a short but very interesting one by Gilbert Labelle on a topic very dear to my own heart, and a longer and also very interesting one by Wadim Zudilin.  I asked Doron Zeilberger about Wadim's paper, and he said "this is a true gem with lots of insight and making connections between different approaches."

The "Editor's Corner" paper is a little different, this time.  This paper is largely the work of my co-author, Michelle Hatzel, extracted and revised from her Masters' thesis which she defended successfully this past August.  I hope that you find it as interesting as I did.

We have three refereed contributions, a contribution on the use of Maple Learn in teaching, and a little note on my design of the 2026 Calendar for my upcoming SIAM book with Nic Fillion, as well.  All the images for the calendar were generated in Maple (as were most of the images in the book).

It's been fun to put this issue together (with an enormous amount of help from Michelle) and I hope that you enjoy reading it.

I would also like to thank the Associate Editors who handled the refereeing: Dhavide Aruliah, David Jeffrey, and Viktor Levandovskyy.

The Summer Issue of Maple Transactions has been published.  There are articles from a range of interests: research, education, and personal stories.

Have a look, and I hope you find something of value in the issue.

The link below goes to the Proceedings of the Maple 2024 Conference, which includes several articles that will be of interest to the readers of Maple Primes.

There may be one more paper coming in to the proceedings later as per policy; since most things are ready, away we go!

Proceedings of the Maple 2024 Conferenc

I'm happy to announce the publication of Volume 5, Issue #1 of Maple Transactions.  You can find it at

mapletransactions.org
 

We have a survey paper by Veselin Jungic and Naomi Borwein on teaching Experimental Mathematics courses as our Featured Contribution.  Many of you will find it interesting and useful.

In the refereed paper section we have a paper on Metaprogramming with Maple and C by Ilias Kotsireas; a paper on fast transposed Vandermonde solving by Hyukho Kwon & Michael Monagan; a paper by David Ulgenes (an honours student in Oslo) on Gamma, Pseudogamma, and Inverse Gamma functions; and a paper by John Campbell on applications of Gosper's nonlocal derangement identity (which, if you don't know that the word "derangement" has a technical mathematical meaning, may give you the wrong impression!).

As usual I've also written something, and I hope you like it: it's about Chladni figures and standing modes in an elliptical drum, and visualizing such in Maple.  It uses Mathieu functions in Maple and noodles a bit about zerofinding (but winds up using fsolve because that's so convenient).
 

Keep the papers coming.  This is the 12th issue of Maple Transactions, and I remind you that it has a "Diamond Class" designation, which means there are no page charges to authors, and the articles are free to read for everyone.  This means that there's some volunteer labour needed, of course: you have to write the articles, and what we want is that you write articles that people in the Maple community actually want to read.

I'd also like to thank the copyeditor, Michelle Hatzel, for her very hard work on this issue.  She's really made a difference, and I think you will be able to see it.