A Guide to MATLAB for Beginners and Experienced Users

A Guide to MATLAB

This book is a short, focused introduction to MATLAB, a comprehen-sive software system for mathematics and technical computing. It will

be useful to bothbeginning and experienced users. It contains concise

explanations of essential MATLAB commands, as well as easily under-stood instructions for using MATLAB’s programming features, graphi-cal capabilities, and desktop interface. It also includes an introduction

to SIMULINK, a companion to MATLAB for system simulation.

Written for MATLAB 6, this book can also be used with earlier (and

later) versions of MATLAB. This book contains worked-out examples

of applications of MATLAB to interesting problems in mathematics,

engineering, economics, and physics. In addition, it contains explicit

instructions for using MATLAB’s Microsoft Word interface to produce

polished, integrated, interactive documents for reports, presentations,

or online publishing.

This book explains everything you need to know to begin using

MATLAB to do all these things and more. Intermediate and advanced

users will find useful information here, especially if they are making

the switch to MATLAB 6 from an earlier version.

Brian R. Hunt is an Associate Professor of Mathematics at the Univer-sity of Maryland. Professor Hunt has coauthored four books on math-ematical software and more than 30 journal articles. He is currently

involved in researchon dynamical systems and fractal geometry.

Ronald L. Lipsman is a Professor of Mathematics and Associate Dean

of the College of Computer, Mathematical, and Physical Sciences at the

University of Maryland. Professor Lipsman has coauthored five books

onmathematical software andmore than70 researcharticles. Professor

Lipsmanwas the recipient of both theNATOandFulbrightFellowships.

Jonathan M. Rosenberg is a Professor of Mathematics at the Univer-sity of Maryland. Professor Rosenberg is the author of two books on

mathematics (one of them coauthored by R. Lipsman and K. Coombes)

and the coeditor ofNovikov Conjectures, Index Theorems, and Rigidity,

a two-volume set from the London Mathematical Society Lecture Note

Series (Cambridge University Press, 1995)