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MATLAB Demystified

MATLAB Demystified
By David McMahon
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional
Number Of Pages: 336
Publication Date: 2007-04-06
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0071485511
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780071485517
Binding: Paperback

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.

Summary: Book better suited for Student Edition of Matlab
Rating: 3

First three chapters, The MATLAB Environment, Vectors and Matrices and Plotting and Graphics, provide a good introduction to Matlab. However, author does not mention that the Symbolic Toolbox is required to work the examples in Chapter 5, Solving Algebraic Equations and other Symbolic Tools, Chapter 6. Basic Symbolic Calculus and Differential Equations, Chapter 8 Integration, and Chapter 9 Transforms. It appears the author assumed the only persons who would buy the book were college students who bought the Student edition of Matlab. Persons who only have access to the commercial version of Matlab will not be able to work the examples in Chapters 5, 6, 8, and 9.

Summary: OK introduction to Matlab but plagued by typos and other problems
Rating: 3

Overall this book is a reasonable introduction to Matlab 7.x but it tends to drag in places and seem rushed in others. Also, there are enough typographical errors in the examples to make it difficult to arrive at the expected results especially if one is a beginner. For example, the solution to one of the quiz questions in chapter 5 requires the use of the “eval” function which was never introduced in the book.

Oddly one of the most powerful features of Matlab, programming, is pasted onto the end of the statistics chapter as a brief introduction whereas it should have it’s own chapter and covered in a lot more detail. Also, there are chapters on transforms and curve fitting but strangely no mention of time series.

Lastly, quizzes at the end of each chapter often leave out key material introduced in that chapter. Also, the final exam at the end of the book leaves out half of the later chapters.

This is an OK book if you want to master the basics of Matlab quickly but on it’s own it’s not enough. I would recommend the much better Getting Started with MATLAB 7: A Quick Introduction for Scientists and Engineers instead.

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