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Subject: Re: Recommend an elementary book on Matlab
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On Dec 14, 3:25=A0pm, Michael Bell <mich...@beaverbell.co.uk> wrote:
> Depending on how things turn out, I may have to learn Matlab. I have
> basic level C and C++. What books can you recommend? I am pretty
> certain I won't need any of the matrix-crunching properties of Matlab,
> I don't want a book that uses hairy maths as its teaching examples,
> that kind of stuff would be far beyond me. I want a book that gives
> SIMPLE teaching examples, storing data in (whatever they're called in
> Matlab) and how to display the results as a map.
>
> I live in Britain.
>
> Michael Bell
>
> --

My recommendation is "Essential Matlab for Engineers and Scientists"
by Brian D. Hahn and Daniel T valentime.  Hey , if you need to learn
Matalb you are stuck with working with matrices but his book certainly
doesn't go into hairy matrix theory.

Howard