The latest edition in this best-selling series, MATLABЮ Primer, Seventh Edition incorporates a number of enhancements such as changes to the desktop, new features for developing M-files, the JIT accelerator, and an easier way of importing Java classes. In addition to the features new to version 7.0, this book includes a new section on M-Lint (the new debugger for M-files), a new chapter on calling Java from MATLAB and using Java objects inside the MATLAB workspace, a new chapter on calling Fortran from MATLAB, a new chapter on solving symbolic and numeric polynomials, nonlinear equations, and differential equations, and a new chapter on cell publishing, which replaces the "notebook" feature.
Kermit Sigmon, author of the MATLAB® Primer, passed away in January 1997. Kermit was a friend, colleague, and fellow avid bicyclist (although I’m a mere 10-mile-aday commuter) with whom I shared an appreciation for the contribution that MATLAB has made to the mathematics, engineering, and scientific community.
MATLAB is a powerful tool, and my hope is that in revising our book for MATLAB 7.0, you will be able to learn how to apply it to solving your own challenging problems in mathematics, science, and engineering. A team at The MathWorks, Inc. revised the Fifth Edition for MATLAB Version 5 in November of 1997. I carried on Kermit’s work by creating the Sixth Edition of this book for MATLAB 6.1 in October 2001, and now this Seventh Edition for MATLAB Version 7.0.
This edition highlights the many new features of MATLAB 7.0, and includes new chapters on features that were in prior versions of MATLAB but not in prior editions of this book.