Introduction to numerical analysis using MATLAB /

Butt (King Saud Univ., Saudi Arabia) focuses on some fundamental mathematical concepts in numerical analysis with MATLAB applications. The book consists of seven chapters on number systems and errors, solutions of nonlinear equations, systems of linear equations, approximating functions, differentiation and integration, ordinary differential equations, and eigenvalues and eigenvectors. Six appendixes include some mathematical preliminaries, introduction to MATLAB, index of MATLAB programs, symbolic computation, answers to selected exercises, and the contents of the CD-ROM bundled with this work. Each example is preceded with a review of the underlying theory and concludes with a function M-file. It is the opinion of this reviewer that Appendix B ("Introduction to MATLAB") should appear as chapter l, and chapter 1 ("Number Systems and Errors") should appear as an appendix. For academic libraries, mathematicians, students, and working professionals. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals. S. T. Karris formerly, University of California, Berkeley