In general Maple is more powerful on solving Integral equations, differential equations and Groebner basis, Mathematica is more powerful for integration, recurrence relations, equation solving and simplification.
,也就是说只是一个附加组件;而该工具箱的符号计算引擎也不是 Mathworks 做的,最早(R2008b之前)该工具箱调用的是 Maple 引擎(事实上到目前为止,如果你的计算机上装有 MATLAB,那么你在安装 Maple 的过程中你仍然会被询问是否安装 Maple 的工具箱到 MATLAB ...