Getting Started with MATLAB 5, A Quick Introduction for Scientists and Engineers

By Rudra Pratap

MATLAB, a software package for high-performance numerical computation and visualization, is one of the most widely used tools for science and engineering applications. Its broad appeal lies in its interactive environment with hundreds of built-in functions for technical computation, graphics, and animation. It also provides easy extensibility with its own high-level programming language.
Getting Started with MATLAB 5: A Quick Introduction for Scientists and Engineers gets students started in MATLAB quickly and easily, in a few short hours. Chapters one and two provide a thorough introduction to the basics and five self-guided lessons. Remaining chapters cover useful and interesting elementary, advanced, and special MATLAB functions.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195129474
• ISBN13: 9780195129472
• Release Date: September 1998
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.4" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Very good quick introduction

Well, I like this book, and refer to it often. It is concise, and written in a friendly way. There are some errors in it, but they are easy enough to spot. To me, this is an excellent book for the beginner to start with. Lightweight, yet gives a broad taste of MatLab's capabilities.

Very good introduction book in MATLAB for beginner

This book is very good introduction about how to use MATLAB for beginner who never use MATLAb before.

A must for any Physicist/Engineer/Science Educator/Student

I really liked this book, and I am NOT a beginnerin Matlab. I learnt Matlab somewhat haphazardly, starting with version 3.0 years ago. Recently I had to introduce many in my company to Matlab and I used this book as a starter's guide. We were off to a great start with this book!

A really good genuinely quick introduction to Matlab.

I am biased. I know this book and the author well. But! I have seen literally hundreds of students at Cornell get started with Matlab with relatively little pain using this book. It starts with simple tutorials. Four hours with these and you can actually do useful things in Matlab. The later material is a good intro and a good reference. The book is not made for a Matlab course but for a person who wants/needs to use Matlab for their work or courses. This is a book that can wean some students of their calculators and begin using a much more powerful tool. It is a book that can coax some who use Fortran, Basic, or C++ into using an equally powerful but easier to use tool.

As an introduction to Matlab, this book was great

I found the text to be very informative. The index was exceedingly useful. As a student who was thrusted into learning Matlab without any formal instruction, I found this text to be a "grade-saver." This text has excellent figures. An explanation next to various lines in the sample programs was an exceptional feature. I recommend this text to any student or Novice who, on short notice, must have a working knowledge of Matlab.