Mathematical Explorations with MATLAB - Softcover

Chen, K.; Giblin, Peter J.; Irving, A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521639204 ISBN 13: 9780521639200

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1999

Synopsis

Mathematical Explorations with MATLAB examines the mathematics most frequently encountered in first-year university courses. A key feature of the book is its use of MATLAB, a popular and powerful software package. The book's emphasis is on understanding and investigating the mathematics by putting the mathematical tools into practice in a wide variety of modeling situations. Even readers who have no prior experience with MATLAB will gain fluency. The book covers a wide range of material: matrices, whole numbers, complex numbers, geometry of curves and families of lines, data analysis, random numbers and simulations, and differential equations from the basic mathematics. These lessons are applied to a rich variety of investigations and modeling problems, from sequences of real numbers to cafeteria queues, from card shuffling to models of fish growth. All extras to the standard MATLAB package are supplied on the World Wide Web.

About this title

Book Description

This book is about the kind of mathematics usually encountered in first year university courses. A key feature of the book is that this mathematics is explored in depth using the popular and powerful package Matlab. The emphasis is on understanding and investigating the mathematics, and putting it into practice in a wide variety of modelling situations. In the process, the reader will gain some fluency with Matlab, no starting knowledge of the package being assumed.

About the Author

Dr Chen is a Reader in Applied Mathematics at the University of Liverpool.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0521639204
• ISBN 13: 9780521639200
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 324