MATLAB Primer [Paperback]

Kermit Sigmon (Author), Timothy A. Davis (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0849313058 | ISBN-13: 978-0849313059 | Publication Date: November 25, 1997 | Edition: 5

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.

Editorial Reviews

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This primer is a useful little booklet. It presents language features in a progressive manner, with the easy things first and more sophisticated features built onto these. … it also serves as a reference work and is a useful supplement to the online help that comes with MATLAB itself. … The presentation throughout is clear and concise, with the text enlivened by illustrative examples where appropriate. Altogether, the book is a complete course in MATLAB, including a careful introduction to object-oriented programming and other advanced and powerful features. I highly recommend this book to MATLAB users at all levels of expertise.
—J.C. Butcher, Computing Reviews, October 2011

After many years away from MATLAB, I am now picking it up again to do some research in signal processing strategies for cochlear implants. As I got into it, I realized that I had forgotten enough of the details as to be pretty useless so I got this book and started from scratch. I love this book! Extremely well written. I especially like the examples that the author intentionally ‘botched’ in order to make teaching points.
—J. Mark Elder, M.D., Ph.D., Aztek Networks, Inc, Boulder, Colorado, USA

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

About the Author

Timothy A. Davis is a professor in the Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering at the University of Florida. A member of ACM, SIAM, IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, SIAM-SC, SIAM-OPT, and SIAM-CSE, Dr. Davis is an associate editor of both ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software and Computational Optimization and Applications.

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: CRC Press; 5 edition (November 25, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0849313058
• ISBN-13: 978-0849313059
• Product Dimensions: 6.3 x 4 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.5 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,524,348 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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27 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Quick "primer", March 18, 2000

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This review is from: MATLAB Primer (Paperback)

This is a quick reference book (VERY small and thin)for matlab commands. Has come in handy in getting a quick fix to some problems/equations. BUT you have to know what you are looking for already.

18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful matlab reference, February 21, 2003

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This review is from: MATLAB Primer, Sixth Edition (Paperback)

Excellent text. Contains nice, brief summaries of matlab functionality, with references on where to go to get more verbose explanations. This book is about the size of a postcard. When I need to locate or discover a new function that I'm sure matlab has somewhere, this Primer is usually more effective than the matlab on-line help. Also good for an overview of functionality, an area where Matlab's on-line help is particularly weak. Assumes no knowledge of matlab.

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Don't need anything else, July 2, 2000

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tanya tickel (Northwestern U) - See all my reviews

This review is from: MATLAB Primer (Paperback)

In MATLAB, really the only thing you need is a list of commands, then you can type 'help command' and be done. Sigmon's book is just this. Good enough to carry me through undergrad to first year grad school. Next year I'll need a reference specializing in the controls toolkit, but this Primer will still be glued to my hand whenever I start Matlab. I'm buying one for each of my students.