MATLAB Guide

Features

• Cover Type: Hard Cover with 382 pages
• Published by: SIAM: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
• Edition: 2nd Edition March 2005
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0898715784
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0898715781
• Book Dimensions: 10.2 x 7.1 x 1 inches
• Weighs: 1.9 pounds

--Salim Meddahi, Universidad de Oviedo, Spain.
"much better than the MATLAB User's Guide for getting started and for looking for help or tricks." --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Review
I use the Higham brothers' MATLAB Guide as a reference for myself and my students in all my applied mathematics and computational science courses. The clarity and usefulness of their writing are major attractions for using their books. Consequently, I look forward to the very much improved second edition, as if that were possible for a much admired book. In particular, the new chapter on case studies looks quite interesting with its useful applications. In addition, new treatments of new functions and features like nested functions, ODE as well as DDE functions will be of great interest. Floyd B. Hanson, Ph.D., Professor of Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago

MATLAB Guide is an great reference book for MATLAB programming. This new version of MATLAB Guide contains material on important changes introduced in MATLAB 7, including single precision arithmetic and anonymous and nested functions. The new edition also contains many more examples; readers will have the advantage of learning MATLAB by essentially looking over the shoulder of two experts. This is a book that all users, new and experienced, will find valuable. James Nagy, Associate Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science, Emory University

MATLAB Guide, Second Edition, is my new favorite MATLAB reference because it not only teaches MATLAB, it fosters a love for all things related to scientific computation. This well-written book features top notch examples, the latest MATLAB features, and offers MATLAB insights that can't be found anywhere else! Steven H. Frankel, Purdue University

The second edition of the Higham brothers' MATLAB Guide is both timely and consistent with their record for careful work. New features from MATLAB versions 13 and 14, such as name completion, anonymous and nested functions, and logical variables are described in the new edition. Appendices have been changed and reorganized to update resource and "help" directory structures There are many new MATLAB functions, such as a fully implicit ODE integrator (ode15i) and a facility for delay differential equations (dde23). Examples have been added to the guide to illustrate these new functions. The authors have done much more than was required for a second edition, but wisely preserved the sometimes delightful examples in the first. Admittedly, their stated objective of providing a compact reference for MATLAB has been pushed a bit by adding 100 new pages. However, edition two represents a careful update of the best MATLAB guide available. W. Petersen, Seminar for Applied Mathematics, ETH Zurich

Reader Reviews
This review is from: Matlab Guide (Hardcover) I am going to also write a review on "Mastering Matlab 6.0", I will be also comparing the two books in the reviews. It is the basis of my review here. I am assuming (seee below) that one has learned Matlab at the beginning level and is looking for a book to get you to the Journeyman level. If you are considering Matlab as a scientific computing language - look no more. It has licensened the "Maple Kernal" as part of its "Math Symbolic ToolBox", it uses LAPAK from FORTRAN for the algorithms for Matrix operations; it uses a high level language (very C++ like) and its own consise syntax for matrix manipulations as well as "Handle Graphics" to produce impressive looking plots and reports. In otherwords, it combines the best of various approaches. If you do not know C++, I advise that learn that first before attempting to learn Matlab. Comparing "Mastering Matlab 6" (MM6) to "Matlab Guide" (MG): *Both books are NOT for absolute Beginners, I think the assumption is that you will first study the book that comes with Matlab and the supurb "Help" Documentation that comes with the program. There are also good starting out tutorials on the net - search: "Matlab; Tutorial". The US Navy has a consise tutorial to get you started. *MM6 does a better job on teaching to the next level beyond the Mathworks supplied documentation and beggining Tutorials. Where Matlab Guide falls short compared to MM6: *MM6 WINS HANDSDOWN ON TEACHING version new to 6.0 specific features. You are short changing yourself by going for a 5.0 text. It is not as well cross referenced as MM6. "Where is the code to solve real world problems" is a grievance I have with MG. *MM6 is geared more towards a programmer/scientist/engineer really needs to know; whereas, MG is geared to a mathematician. If you want "A survey of Mathematics with Matlab as your Guide" (a more appropriate title in my opinion) then this (MG) is your book. This book really jumps around. Example: Fibonacci sequence on p9, Collatz iteration on p10, Systems of Linear Ordinary Differential Equations on p12, Sierpinski gasket (fractal geometry) on p.17.... WHAT IS MISSING in MG: * Matlab 6.0 specific features. * Extending Matlab with Programming languages * Integrating it in with Windows./GUIs/ Dialog boxes. Don't get me wrong, I eventually will read all of this book and learn a lot of math in the process - but to get to the Journeyman level in Matlab as an engineer or scientist, I reccomend MM6 instead. If you want to get real math specific, MG is your choice - but you will not learn as much Matlab and problem solving with Matlab. Comment | | (Report this)