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For several years, the ALGORITHMS Project has been working under Philippe Flajolet's guidance in the field of symbolic computation. This activity takes various aspects: research works; a bi-weekly seminar; courses to engineers, professors and students; the publication of books about computer algebra, especially the Maple system (the Project maintains a strong relationship to the Maple community.)

The ALGORITHMS Project also offers you many examples of use of Maple in combinatorics and asymptotics, both ingredients of the analysis of algorithms.

Xavier Gourdon and Philippe Dumas have written a book called Maple - Son bon usage en mathématiques, Springer-Verlag, 1997 about the use of the computer algebra system Maple. Here are

• introduction and table of contents;
• errata ;
• comments ;
• Bibtex reference
• Maple code of the book;
• MicroMaple.

Springer-Verlag published numerous books about Maple, like those of Corless; Redfern; Gander and Hrebicek (use the keyword Maple in the field title, in the Springer mathematics catalog).

See Bruno Salvy's home page for

• the table of contents of the book entitled Calcul formel : Mode d'emploi - Exemples en Maple, Masson, 1995 he wrote with Claude Gomez and Paul Zimmermann (BibTex reference);
• a detailed description of the updates from Maple V.3 to Maple V.4;
• many Maple packages freely avalaible, e.g. gfun (about generating functions) or gdev (about asymptotic expansions);
• an introduction to computer algebra (slides).

François Morain (François Morain's home page at INRIA, François Morain's home page at LIX) and Jean-Louis Nicolas wrote a book Mathématiques et Informatique - Quatorze problèmes corrigés pour l'enseignement supérieur, Vuibert, 1995. It contains 11 problems written in Pascal and 3 problems written in Maple.

• BibTex reference;
• introduction and table of contents.

Frédéric Chyzak developped a Maple package Mgfun, which extends gfun to the multivariate case; see Frédéric Chyzak's home page

See also the home page of the Club Maple, the home page of the francophone group of Maple users.