"Tutorials on Mathematics to MATLAB"

About the Book

The book is a tutorial showing the implementation of MATLAB commands through simple mathematics examples, however, followings are the relevant features of the book:

• The book is intended for undergraduate as well as graduate students of science and engineering who are beginners in using MATLAB. Teachers, researchers, and scientists may benefit from the book.
• The book has strong potential for use by graduate students to aid them in conducting their research. The book is a ready-to-use tool that shows the reader how to compute many of the basic mathematical problems he may encounter in his studies or research using MATLAB.
• The book has wider scope that extends from elementary to advanced level, and seems to provide more explanation of the theory behind the mathematics of the MATLAB functions so that the reader does not have to go through the mathematics book while using MATLAB.
• The goal of a user is to find the information he needs quickly and use it effectively. The book contributes in this direction by first guiding the user to the appropriate subject he is interested in. Then, from the examples solved, he finds the MATLAB command he needs to solve his own problem.
• The book is interesting because it emphasizes the symbolic computations, which, when possible, are better than numerical ones and this is useful to beginning and experienced users.

The book contains eleven chapters with the following titles:

1. Introduction to MATLAB
2. Matrix Fundamentals
3. Solutions to Algebraic, Trigonometric, and Geometric Problems
4. Matrix Algebra
5. Problems of Differential Calculus
6. Problems of Integral Calculus
7. Problems of Complex Variables and Differential Equations
8. Problems of Fourier, Laplace, and Z Transforms
9. Problems of Statistics
10. Miscellaneous Functions
11. M–file Programming and Some Utilities

About the Author

The author has done excellent job in focusing the book toward the intended goal and presenting the material in a logical way. The book would be appealing to graduate students and researchers. The author has presented the subject matter with a degree of originality and insight. I feel that the author has tried to cover thoroughly the different situations that can arise in a particular technical problem and the way to handle them. By exposing the analytical solution with its different steps followed by the MATLAB implementation, the author has achieved two goals; the first one is the presentation of the analytical solution itself which is beneficial for the reader; and the second goal is showing the value of MATLAB and the effort that can be saved by its user.