Significant improvements have been made in the efficiency and accuracy of the routines that calculate elliptic and Jacobi functions.

The new Optimization package provides commands for numerically solving optimization problems.  For a summary of the package's main features, see New Packages in Maple 9.5.

For information on the improvements to the numeric solution of differential equations, see Updates to Differential Equation Solvers in Maple 9.5

The RootFinding package enhances Maple's ability to compute and locate roots numerically. For more information, see New Packages in Maple 9.5