Maplesoft Blog Spring 2025 issue of Maple Transactionss

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.