Customer Reviews

Numerical Computing with Matlab

5 star:		(1)
4 star:		(3)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

This is one of the original Matlab developers. A good book follows the book by Heath on Scientific Computing with a focus on Matlab. It's available for free at www.mathworks.com/moler

Great text for the student of matlab. Matlab is very generous with online documentation, and this content can be found at the matlab website with some creative google-whacking. All code and data files are also available.

If you need to learn numerical methods, and at the same time is concerned with MATLAB Programming, this is your book. Unfortunately, he doesn't cover relevant topics supposed to be studied in a graduate program. But definitely It's a good book, a "must read", in this area.

Moler provides you with a good introduction to the main ideas of numerical analysis. To do this, and to make useful examples that you can follow, he also chose Matlab as the numerical package. The book's contents are focused on floating point methods. Like numerical integration, and solving partial differential equations.

There is a brief section on integer arithmetic methods - using cryptography as an example. But if you need discrete methods, turn to other texts.

The book also does not use the symbolic algebra capabilities of Matlab. [As you may know, the competing package, Mathematica, is reknowned for its symbolic algebra.]

Useful for students of the physical sciences and engineering.

This books present the most usual modern numerical methods in a postgraduate level. The applicationson Matlab are also practical and useful. This is a good and clear text, useful in particular for solving research numerical choices in the investigation process.