Learning MATLAB: A Problem Solving Approach

This comprehensive and stimulating introduction to Matlab, a computer language now widely used for technical computing, is based on an introductory course held at Qian Weichang College, Shanghai University, in the fall of 2014.

Teaching and learning a substantial programming language aren’t always straightforward tasks. Accordingly, this textbook is not meant to cover the whole range of this high-performance technical programming environment, but to motivate first- and second-year undergraduate students in mathematics and computer science to learn Matlab by studying representative problems, developing algorithms and programming them in Matlab. While several topics are taken from the field of scientific computing, the main emphasis is on programming.

A wealth of examples are completely discussed and solved, allowing students to learn Matlab by doing: by solving problems, comparing approaches and assessing the proposed solutions.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Starting and Using Matlab
Chapter 2 How a Computer Calculates
Chapter 3 Plotting Functions and Curves
Chapter 4 Some Elementary Functions
Chapter 5 Computing with Multiple Precision
Chapter 6 Solving Linear Equations
Chapter 7 Recursion
Chapter 8 Iteration and Nonlinear Equations
Chapter 9 Simulation
Chapter 10 Solutions of Problems