An Introduction to Matlab - Version 2.3

by David F. Griffiths.

Matlab is an interactive system for doing numerical computations. - A numerical analyst called Cleve Moler wrote the first version of Matlab in the 1970s. It has since evolved into a successful commercial software package. - Matlab relieves you of a lot of the mundane tasks associated with solving problems numerically. This allows you to spend more time thinking, and encourages you to experiment. - Matlab makes use of highly respected algorithms and hence you can be confident about your results. - Powerful operations can be performed using just one or two commands. - You can build up your own set of functions for a particular application. - Excellent graphics facilities are available, and the pictures can be inserted into LATEX and Word documents. [via]

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