This is a lively textbook for an introductory course in numerical methods, MATLAB and technical computing, which emphasises the informed use of mathematical software. Numerical Computing with MATLAB helps readers learn about the mathematical functions in MATLAB, how to appreciate their limitations, and how to use and modify them appropriately. The book makes extensive use of computer graphics, and provides more than 70 M-files, which can be downloaded from the text website www.mathworks.com/moler. Many of the numerous exercises involve modifying and extending these programs. The theory can be adapted to apply to modern problems from cryptography, touch-tone dialing, Google page-ranking, atmospheric science and image processing, as well as classical problems from physics and engineering. This book will appeal to advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students in science and engineering. This revision includes changes and corrections made since the book was originally published in 2004.

Cleve B.Moler 是The MathWorks公司的主席和首席科學傢。曾任密歇根大學、斯坦福大學和新墨西哥大學的數學係或計算機係教授。他在兩個計算機硬件製造商Intel公司的Hypercube組織Ardent Computers公司工作瞭五年。他的主要專業興趣在於數值分析和科學計算。他是MATLAB軟件的創始者，也是著名的矩陣計算軟件包LINPACK和EISPACK的作者之一，已撰寫瞭三本有關數值方法的教材。同時，他在SIAM(美國工業與應用數學學會)曆任期刊編輯、委員會成員和副總裁，並從1996年開始擔任理事會成員。