MATLAB Primer

Timothy A. Davis is a professor in the Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering at the University of Florida. A member of ACM, SIAM, IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, SIAM-SC, SIAM-OPT, and SIAM-CSE, Dr. Davis is an associate editor of both ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software and Computational Optimization and Applications.

• Getting Started. The MATLAB Desktop. Matrices and Matrix Operations. Submatrices and Colon Notation. MATLAB Functions. M-Files. Control Flow Statements. Advanced Data Structures. Object-Oriented Programming. Advanced M-File Features. Code Development Tools. Calling C from MATLAB. Calling Fortran from MATLAB. Calling Java from MATLAB. Two-Dimensional Graphics. Three-Dimensional Graphics. Advanced Graphics. Sparse Matrix Computations. The Symbolic Math Toolbox. Polynomials, Interpolation, and Integration. Solving Equations. Displaying Results. Cell Publishing. Appendices. Index.

This primer is a useful little booklet. It presents language features in a progressive manner, with the easy things first and more sophisticated features built onto these. … it also serves as a reference work and is a useful supplement to the online help that comes with MATLAB itself. … The presentation throughout is clear and concise, with the text enlivened by illustrative examples where appropriate. Altogether, the book is a complete course in MATLAB, including a careful introduction to object-oriented programming and other advanced and powerful features. I highly recommend this book to MATLAB users at all levels of expertise.—J.C. Butcher, Computing Reviews, October 2011After many years away from MATLAB, I am now picking it up again to do some research in signal processing strategies for cochlear implants. As I got into it, I realized that I had forgotten enough of the details as to be pretty useless so I got this book and started from scratch. I love this book! Extremely well written. I especially like the examples that the author intentionally ‘botched’ in order to make teaching points.—J. Mark Elder, M.D., Ph.D., Aztek Networks, Inc, Boulder, Colorado, USA