| MATLAB Demystified |  | Author: David McMahon
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional
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Pages: 336
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Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 7.3 x 0.8
ISBN: 0071485511
Dewey Decimal Number: 620.00151
EAN: 9780071485517
ASIN: 0071485511
Publication Date: April 6, 2007
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Product Description
Need to Learn MATLAB? Problem SOLVED! Get started using MATLAB right away with help from this hands-on guide. MATLAB Demystified offers an effective and enlightening method for learning how to get the most out this powerful computational mathematics tool. Using an easy-to-follow format, this book explains the basics of MATLAB up front. You'll find out how to plot functions, solve algebraic equations, and compute integrals. You'll also learn how to solve differential equations, generate numerical solutions of ODEs, and work with special functions. Packed with hundreds of sample equations and explained solutions, and featuring end-of-chapter quizzes and a final exam, this book will teach you MATLAB essentials in no time at all. - This self-teaching guide offers:
- The quickest way to get up and running on MATLAB
- Hundreds of worked examples with solutions
- Coverage of MATLAB 7
- A quiz at the end of each chapter to reinforce learning and pinpoint weaknesses
- A final exam at the end of the book
- A time-saving approach to performing better on homework or on the job
Simple enough for a beginner, but challenging enough for an advanced user, MATLAB Demystified is your shortcut to computational precision.
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 Not bad June 11, 2010
Leeber Cohen
I think most of the reviews are right on target. The book is a decent introduction. You do need to have the symbolic add-on as mentioned for the later chapters. There are several bad typos which need editing in a future edtion. This is true of several other math books from this publisher.
 no wonder May 8, 2010
semperula
.. that they are selling this book cheap - I fully agree with both the positive reviews, because I like the approach of the book, but I also fully agree with the negative reviews: the book IS poorly edited, with making references to earlier chapters where things were not treated as they apparently should have been. Yes, this book is a start, but only an average one. You get what you pay for.
 A quick beginners guide January 30, 2010
DG Bucknall (Atlanta, USA)
If you have no prior knowledge of Matlab then this is probably as good as place to start as any. It is a shortish book which you can work through relatively quickly to give you all the basic skills. For more intermediate or advanced uses of Matlab then this book is not going to be any use, but then you wouldn't expect that given its title. The book uses a series of examples to show you basic features of Matlab, which help you learn quickly the commands and more particularly begin to understand the syntax that are so critical to Matlab and other mathematical software.
great gift for future engineer December 29, 2009
L. D. Kiser (AZ)
I got this as a gift for a future engineer (he's in college), and he loved it!!!
Only decent content, poor editing September 3, 2009
John in Seattle (Everett, WA United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Another review pointed out the poor editing with this book. For instance, chapter 2 includes a phrase "we have seen how to create a row vector ... using the linspace command" but no reference to the linspace command is ever made. The text also references another MATLAB book, but does not call it out. It almost make me think this is a stripped down text of a larger work, but that is supposition on my part.
The text in the examples is sometimes wrong (y=x^2 will not often work - you need to type y=x.^2) although the book will eventually point out how to enter the correct syntax. I wish it would do this before showing the wrong text to type, though.
All in all, this book is not worth the time needed to detangle it. It is incomplete and needs a new editing pass to make it worthwhile.
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