Books and other prerequisites

1. Book: Introduction to Scientific Computing and Data Analyses

   by Mark Holmes, –REQUIRED

   http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319302546

   ISBN 978-3-319-30256-0

   ebook 60 USD, hardcover 80 USD, amazon 55 USD

   http://www.facultybookshelf.org/course/1101

2. Scientific Computing: An Introductory Survey by Michael Heath. ISBN: 978-1-611975-57-4 Second edition Recommended

3. Willingness to work in Matlab

   Guides to Matlab:

   • For detailed introduction see www.mathworks.com/moler/chapters.html
   • “A Practical Introduction to Matlab “ by Mark S. Gockenbach
   • ` ` MATLAB Primer”, 3d Ed. by Kermit Sigmon
   • MATLAB Tutorial for RPI can be found at

     https://trainingenrollment.mathworks.com/selfEnrollment?code=Q5WMTYDO2I9O

4. Wikipedia.org contains a lot of wisom.

Alternative to Matlab Freely available packages named “Octave” (octave.org) and Scilab (scilab.org) offer functionality similar to that of Matlab. You may find these free options to be apealing, especially for off-campus use.