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Numerical Methods with MATLAB : Implementations and Applications

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This is a nice book for scientists and engineers. There are MATLAB programs already written that you can download from the webpage very easily, and modify for your specific use. I am no programmer, so having programs I can easily modify is a plus. This is meant to only be a review of linear algebra, so if you are trying to learn that subject, you will probably need to supplement this text with another book. This is not terribly in-depth on the MATLAB either. But it is a very useful handbook of plotting and interpolation methods, and how to choose the best methods for your particular set of data.

This book is okay for a text book, however there arent many examples, and the examples that are there are very simple. There are solutions for some problems online, though most of them are very basic and don't help very much.

It took ridiculously long for the book to be sent to me. Although I'm on Amazon Prime, the item doesn't get shipped to me until after a few weeks. And when the book finally came, I found that there were pages that were not cut properly, so some of the pages were joined. It baffles me as to why they can't perform some basic quality check on the book before shipping it.

Item was delivered in poor condition. Textbook spine was broken and pages falling out. Very disappointed as this product was advertised as in "good condition" and wasn't a cheap purchase.

I used this book along with course notes and homework that I found online. My goal was to learn everything in an undergrad-level Numerical Methods course without having to spend the time and money required to take a class. The reason I chose this book was that I am a computer scientist; this book uses a programming-oriented approach to the material than other books do.

I was able to complete the homework in about six weeks. I rarely had to refer to the course notes or to other sources. So, overall the book worked well for me. For most of the topics, it was all I needed.

But, it wasn't a smooth ride the whole way. Some sections, notably Gaussian quadrature, were presented in confusing ways and took me several days to puzzle through. My one criticism of this book is that it uses a great deal of space to show Matlab code (which is available online) and so it does not have space for illustrative diagrams and graphs. So, you really need to run your own Matlab experiments using the provided code to understand the material.

A book for who are learning or beggning to use the MatLab. Comes with some examples and exercises on algebra and more. Must to have a hard cover!