# Julia against Maple

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-against-maple/38238>\
**Category:** New to Julia\
**Tags:** question\
**Created:** [April 26, 2020, 1:40pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-against-maple/38238 "2020-04-26T13:40:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![ameresv](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/ameresv/32/14372_2.png) [@ameresv](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ameresv)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2020, 1:40pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-against-maple/38238/1 "2020-04-26T13:40:46Z")

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Hi! More than a question, I am looking for a piece of advice for a project that I have.  
Most of the optimization and equations that I have to resolve for my paper requires the usage of Maple. However, is there a way to do the same in Julia? If this is possible. How can I start? Which resources are required for that?  
To give an example: most of the equation has this form:  
 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/c/8/c8daa1a14885a47495506c0d826ffbaad714553c.png)

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**Author:** ![stevengj](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/stevengj/32/71_2.png) [@stevengj](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/stevengj)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2020, 1:51pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-against-maple/38238/2 "2020-04-26T13:51:25Z")

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You can compute 1d numerical integrals like this with e.g. the QuadGK.jl package.

If you need to solve this equation for `x` you can use e.g. Roots.jl (it’s pretty easy to take the derivative of that ratio with respect to `x` if you want to use Newton’s method).

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**Author:** ![ameresv](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/ameresv/32/14372_2.png) [@ameresv](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ameresv)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2020, 2:58pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-against-maple/38238/3 "2020-04-26T14:58:22Z")

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Great! thanks a lot for your answer! I will check the packages mentioned. One more thing, any book that you can recommend for that? Regards