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Title: MATLAB: An Introduction with Applications
ISBN: 0470108770
Author:
Amos Gilat
Publicate Date: 2008-01-02
Publish: 2008-01-02
List Price: $59.95
Average Customer Rating: 5.0
Format: Paperback
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1: An excellent reference or learning tool for matlab graphics
I bought this book to help me in a computational Physics course where we were using FORTRAN to create the data, and matlab to visualize it. Mostly 2d and 3d graphics. This book was an enormous help to me. I have other books on matlab, but none even came close to this one. Mr. Gilat gives a good treatment of the surf, mesh, meshgrid, plot3, and other graphics functions that you would be hard pressed to find even in the matlab help file. I give this one 5 stars.
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2: Never realized it could be this great
I am a robotics engineering masters student who is REALLY behind on his Matlab knowledge based on the fact that i have a background in biology. (Long story). I just completed my first semester and bought this book in May to learn matlab more thoroughly over the summer. This book is just FANTASTIC. I couldn't ask for more. It is structured logically, the examples are CLEAR and it just makes total sense. I never realized that it would be this readable and excellent. If you are a beginner it can truly be read cover to cover. The problems are interesting and the step by step guides are just what i needed. I initially thought twice about spending the $80 when there were cheaper texts available, but let me tell you from experience, don't bother. I have read some other Matlab texts and they pale in comparison to this one. It is worth every penny. If you have a limited knowledge or are without any knowledge of Matlab GET THIS BOOK. It is great and worth the extra money.
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3: Clear and concise for the beginner
This is the book for you if you are new to MATLAB. The book covers the basic steps of MATLAB and how to apply them to real word engineering or mathematical problems in an interactive environment.
The book is well written and is very easy to use. This is a great book for the beginner, but I would not recommend the book for anyone that has over 6 months of experience.
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4: Very Good
The Item was in very good condition & the shipping was prompt & before time.
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5: Great for learning the basics of MATLAB.
I purchased this title because I am starting a numerical analysis sequence next year using Matlab and I knew only how to plot in 2D and do simple calculations at the command line. After studying from Gilat's text for the past month or so I feel very comfortable using Matlab for all the basics and I am ready to learn how to exploit the full power of the program.
Each chapter gives just enough mathematical background to provide anyone with at least college algebra/trig enough to understand what is going on.
Although this book does not cover any topic too deeply, it does cover the fundamentals of many aspects of Matlab in a way that allows the reader to move fairly quickly through the whole book without getting bogged down in any one area.
In the end you will know the basics about how Matlab operates: how to work with vectors and matrices, how to write simple programs and function files, how to plot and format data, how to fit data to a curve, and how to differentiate and integrate both numerically and symbolically, and a bunch of other great tools for solving problems.
Also, as the other reviewers mentioned, the book makes very good use of graphics to show how input and output should look, as well as what exactly each line means.
I would recommend this text to anyone wanting to learn the basics of Matlab.
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