What is MATLAB ?

• It stands for MATrix LABoratory
• It is developed by The Mathworks, Inc. (http://www.mathworks.com)
• It is an interactive, integrated, environment
  • for numerical computations
  • for symbolic computations (via Maple)
  • for scientific visualizations
• It is a high-level programming language
• Program runs in interpreted, as opposed to compiled, mode