ABSTRACT

MATLAB language is becoming a widely accepted scientific language, especially in the field of automatic control. In other engineering and nonengineering disciplines such as economics and even biology, MATLAB is also an attractive and promising computer mathematics language. In this book, we shall concentrate on the introduction to MATLAB with its applications in solving applied mathematics problems. A good working knowledge of MATLAB language will enable one not only understand in depth the concepts and algorithms in research but also increase the ability to do creative research work and apply MATLAB to actively tackle the problems in other related courses. As a programming language, MATLAB has the following advantages:

(i) Clarity and high efficiency MATLAB language is a highly integrated language. A few MATLAB sentences may do the work of hundreds of lines of source code of other languages. Thus the MATLAB program is more reliable and easy to maintain.