ABSTRACT
The aim of this chapter is to make the reader familiar with the programming tool MATLAB. No previous knowledge of MATLAB is assumed, hence the introduction is given in a very analytical way, starting from the very basics. Before starting our tour to thewonderful world of MATLAB let us note some conventions made during the writing of this book:
1. In some cases, a command or a result is written in more than one line. You should consider that the command is written in one line. In the usual case, the result also occupies a single line.
