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 | | Introduction to Scientific Computing: A Matrix-Vector Approach Using MATLAB (2nd Edition) (The Matlab Curriculum Series) by Charles F. Van Loan ISBN-10: 0139491570 ISBN-10: 0-13-949157-0 ISBN-13: 9780139491573 ISBN-13: 978-0-13-949157-3 Paperback 1999-07-17 Prentice Hall Find Lowest Price |
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The worst book This is probably the worst book in Scientific computation. This book doesnot explain any topic in depth. It's a waste of money to buy this book. | ||
Whomever reviewed this text positively is an idealistic tool Pavlov's dogs could have been trained to write a better textbook on Matlab computing then the author has done. In fact, I believe this book was written and produced by 1,000 monkeys instead of an esteemed Cornell professor. The examples in the book rarely work and I believe that any careful reader will realize that anyone who gives this book a positive review is a complete tool that probably has nothing better to do than to make excuses for his domestic partner's poor job at crafting such an overpriced waste of tree pulp. It seems to me that professors @ Cornell should stay out of the publishing industry because they just can't seem to get anything right. As for the positive reviewers of this text, I believe they should get some of that South African homegrown Viagra "on tap" and have "a thought-provoking and exciting" time for once in their sad sad lives. | ||
This book is an embarrrassment. I am in the professors class and the lectures are just as incomprehensible as the book. This book uses mathematics to obscure mathematical concepts beyond recognizability. Its unfortunate that this book has wiped out any interest I might have had in numerical analysis. It is not a good reference for anything except for how to write a terrible book. Specifically, the code doesn't make sense and is often inconsistent, the explanations are scanty, typos are abundant, and any knowledge to be had is lost in the muddle. Don't bother with thisbook. | ||
Did anyone actually edit this book? I find it appalling that in a college level textbook there would be spelling errors, problems that just don't make sense (i.e. a problem referring to making four plots but failing to say what they should be of), and untested matlab scripts. This book looks like it was written on a whim and doesn't really cover matlab, it just presents mathematical problems that should be solvable in matlab, but without providing any examples or information in the text to help. | ||
incomprehensible trash This book reads like it was compiled from notes written on the back of napkins by some scatter-brained professor. It lacks any sort of logical organization. Convoluted Matlab code is sprinkled throughout the book without any comments or explanations. Even worse are the long numerical tables of program output that are frequently offered up without any context. Mathematical theory is treated as secondary to the meaningless snippets of MatLab code. Explanations of concepts, when the author is so gracious as to include them at all, are terse and incomplete. This is quite simply the worst textbook that I have ever encountered. It is a disgrace that this book ever made it through publishing. Save your money for something else; you cannot learn mathematics from a schizophrenic cookbook. | ||