Linear Algebra for Engineers and Scientists Using Matlab: AND Maple 10 VP

by Kenneth Hardy

Linear Algebra for Engineers and Scientists Using Matlab®: International Edition, 1/e For a one-semester introductory course. Although the text has been developed in the context of engineering and physical science, it is also suitable for computer science students, math majors, and other quantitative fields. The most carefully written and clearest written text in linear algebra, motivates students in applied areas by placing linear algebra in context through current applications, anecdotes and historical references. Although it may be used without machine computation, the use of MATLAB is encouraged in a unique and innovative way. Maple 10, 1/e Maple 10 is a computer algebra system available from Maplesoft capable of performing mathematical calculations as well as programming, and 2-D and 3-D visualizations. Maple 10 offers full computing support for any activity involving mathematics, including numerical computation, symbolic computation, data visualization and technical authoring of mathematical documents. Students can enter and solve problems interactively, see what they have entered represented graphically, link their work to Excel spreadsheets, publish to the web in Maple applets and Java applets, and much more. The Maple 10 Student Edition CD is only £10 when bundled with any Pearson maths title.  If the student were to purchase Maple through Maplesoft, the price would be £80    

Genres: Mathematics

Paperback

First published August 2, 2003

Reviews

[Emil Petersen · Rating 3 out of 5]

I have a vague feeling that this book is disappearing form the scene of linear algebra. It's from 2005 and hard to come by. It does what it is supposed to, but I'll wager that you can find 20 linear algebra books that does the same. The "using MATLAB part" is negligible. It had some confusing parts, namely changes of bases, which I then read in Linear Algebra and Its Applications, and it made much more sense! I'd probably recommend that book instead of this one, if it weren't that I know for sure that you will get a good grasp of linear algebra from here. I haven't read the other one.

Some pretty bad things about the format: my book's bindings and print was so shitty that all the pages are falling out, and it's practically a photocopy of a photocopy. You can't see any of the graphs because of the gray scaled shitty printer they used and some sentences are cut off at the bottom on the paper. Oh, and it cost me 116 dollars! Not a good deal. I still very much like it's contents and this is (probably) no fault of Kenneth Hardy.

If you have the book already, read it; it IS good. If not, you should probably find another - such as Linear Algebra and Its Applications, which helped me when this one couldn't.