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Essential MATLAB for Scientists and Engineers

Essential MATLAB for Scientists and Engineers
By Brian D. Hahn

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Based on a teach-yourself approach, the fundamentals of MATLAB are illustrated throughout with many examples from a number of different scientific and engineering areas, such as simulation, population modelling, and numerical methods, as well as from business and everyday life. Some of the examples draw on first-year university level maths, but these are self-contained so that their omission will not detract from learning the principles of using MATLAB. This completely revised new edition is based on the latest version of MATLAB. New chapters cover handle graphics, graphical user interfaces (GUIs), structures and cell arrays, and importing/exporting data. The chapter on numerical methods now includes a general GUI-driver ODE solver. The key features include: maintains the easy informal style of the first edition; teaches the basic principles of scientific programming with MATLAB as the vehicle; and covers the latest version of MATLAB.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #752196 in Books
  • Published on: 2002-09-12
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 320 pages

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"Of all the introductions I have seen to MATLAB this text does by far the most thorough job. I recommend [it] to anyone who wishes to become an expert MATLAB user - this book shows the way." J.A.C. Weideman, Oregon State University, USA and Stellenbosch University, South Africa

About the Author
Brian Hahn graduated from the University of Cape Town before obtaining a PhD from Cambridge in high energy physics. He lectured in Applied Mathematics at the University of the Witwatersrand for a number of years before moving to Cape Town. He is an associate professor (and Head of Department) in Mathematics & Applied Mathematics at the University of Cape Town, where he has specialised in teaching programming languages to beginners for more than 20 years. He has written a number of popular computing books, on Fortran 77 and 90, GW-BASIC, True BASIC, Turbo Pascal, C++, Matlab and, most recently, Java. When not writing a new book, he carries out research in rangeland modelling. Spare time activies include birding, jogging, and planting indigenous trees on the small holding he shares with his wife and numerous german shepherd dogs. He can be contacted at mailto:bdh@maths.uct.ac.za. Website: http://www.mth.uct.ac.za/~webpages/hahn/