This book is designed to support a one semester course in numerical methods It has been written for students who want to learn and apply numerical methods in order to solve problems in engineering and science As such the methods are motivated by problems rather than by mathematics That said sufficient theory is provided so that students come away with insight into the techniques and their shortcomings MATLAB provides a great environment for such a course Although other environments e g Excel VBA Mathcad or languages e g Fortran 90 C Python could have been chosen MATLAB presently offers a nice combination of handy programming features with powerful built in numerical capabilities On the one hand its M file programming environment allows students to implement moderately complicated algorithms in a structured and coherent fashion On the other hand its built in numerical capabilities empower students to solve more difficult problems without trying to reinvent the wheel Algorithms Presented Using MATLAB M files Instead of using pseudocode this book presents algorithms as well structured MATLAB M files Aside from being useful computer programs these provide students with models for their own M files that they will develop as homework exercises

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