Applied Numerical Methods with MATLAB for Engineers and Scientists

Item was exactly as described, no issues whatsoever. Required for a college course I was taking, cheaper than the bookstore!

This text was just what my son needed for his class, prompt shipping.

My group uses Matlab for numerical analysis, so I bought this book to learn Matlab in that context. (I don't need to know ALL of the great things Matlab can do.) I'm proficient in a number of programming languages for a variety of application fields, I just don't know Matlab.A year of calculus-based physics and a year of calculus are sufficient prerequisites to understand the application material. Studying the Matrices/Linear Algebra from a Mathematical Methods for Physicists/Engineers text will give you enough background in those topics.After a first read-through, the book addresses my questions on how to use Matlab. I look forward to using it a map to learn it.

The book I needed

Excellent!

The existence of this book is criminal. This is just a terrible condensed version of another book by the same Author “Numerical methods for Engineers 7th edition” which while slightly older is incredible and much more in-depth on the topics. Not to mention covering MATLAB MATHCAD and Excel tools that are still useful to anyone learning numerical methods. This present edition for some reason scraps all the information that someone would want to learn to understand numerical methods and focuses entirely on matlab functions that could be googled with much better explanation. The fact that this book is upwards of 200$ while the much longer and better book costs pennies used is absurd. Do yourself a favor and do not buy this book unless you absolutely have to for the problems.