ABSTRACT
MATLAB language is becoming a widely accepted scientific language, especially in the field of automatic control. In other engineering and non-engineering disciplines such as economics and even biology, MATLAB is also an attractive and promising computer mathematics language. This chapter focuses on the introduction to MATLAB with its applications in solving applied mathematics problems. MATLAB variable names consist of a letter, followed by any number of letters, digits or underscores, with maximum length of 63. Symbolic variables are also defined in MATLAB in contrast to the conventional numerical variables. They can be used in formula derivation and analytical solutions of mathematical problems. Before finding analytical solutions, the related variables should be declared as symbolic ones, with the syms statement syms var list var props, where var list is the list of variables to be declared, separated by spaces.
