MATLAB Primer - Softcover

This fifth edition extends the MATLAB Primer, representing the significant features introduced in MATLAB 5 and reflecting a dramatic change in the text . This pocket book serves as an excellent resource for students and engineers requiring a high-level introduction and handy reference to MATLAB 5, helping readers to learn efficiently and independently without having to delve through manuals.
MATLAB integrates computation, visualization, and programming in a flexible, open environment - offering engineers and scientists an intuitive language for expressing problems and their solutions mathematically and graphically. Complex numerical problems can be solved in a fraction of the time required with other programming languages, such as FORTRAN or C.
Updated by numerous members involved with product development at The MathWorks, this exceptional revision provides the student and user with a quick, accessible, hands-on guide to the latest version of MATLAB.

This pocket reference serves as a resource for students and engineers requiring a high-level introduction to MATLAB 5.0, seeking to help readers learn efficiently and independently without having to hunt through manuals. The fifth edition extends the primer, reflecting the significant features of MATLAB 5.0. It includes information on all the programming and applications development tools in MATLAB 5.0; updates all command reference tables; underscores all the new language, structures, and data types used; and appraises innovations in the graphics features and symbolic math toolbox.