Chapter 88

MATLAB®

Steven J. Leon

University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

MATLAB® is generally recognized as the leading software for scientific computation. It was originally developed in the 1970s by Cleve Moler as an interactive Matrix Laboratory with matrix routines based on the algorithms in the LINPACK and EISPACK software libraries. In the original 1978 version everything in MATLAB® was done with matrices, even the graphics. MATLAB® has continued to grow and expand from the classic 1978 Fortran version to the current version, R2013a, which was released in March 2013. Each new release has included significant improvements. The graphics capabilities were greatly enhanced with the introduction of Handle Graphics and Graphical User Interfaces ...

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