Math 151a Text and Other Resources, Fall 2014

Principle Text

• Numerical Analysis, Ninth Edition
  Richard L. Burden and J. Douglas Faires
  Cengage Learning/Brooks-Cole (2011)
  ISBN-13: 978-0-538-73351-9; ISBN-10: 0-538-73351-9
  Roughly, we will cover Chapters 1-4, and 6.
  

MATLAB Resources

• MATLAB Student Version R2014a is the most recent. .
  The Mathworks Inc., Natick, MA
  ISBN 978-0-9825-8383-8
• Getting Started with MATLAB and Simulink Student Version, by Mathworks
  This is a free on-line set of tutorials.
• Chapter 1 of Numerical Computing with MATLAB, by Cleve Moler
  This is a good general introduction to MATLAB.
• MATLAB: An Introduction with Applications, Fourth Edition, by Amos Gilat
  J. Wiley and Sons, New York, 2011
  
• An Introduction to MATLAB for Engineers, by William J. Palm III
  McGraw-Hill, New York, 2010
  

• Getting Started with MATLAB, A Quick Introduction for Scientists and Engineers, by Rudra Pratap
  Oxford University Press, New York, 2009
  (There may be some differences between the MATLAB described in this book and versions 2009b or later.)
• Essentials of MATLAB Programming, Second Edition, by Stephen J. Chapman
  Cengage Learning, Stamford CT, 2009
  (This book covers more advanced material than is needed for this course.
  This is based on MATLAB 7. I do not know if it is current with version 2009b or later.)