From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Thu Oct 30 07:54:08 2003 Subject: Re: [O] Experiences with G.Strang: Intro to Linear Algebra? From: Ada Cheng To: Wolfgang Lindner cc: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 08:54:52 -0500 (EST) I have not use the book personally but any normal .m files should run with Octave. When I moved from Matlab to Octave the only codes I have to modify slightly are the plots command. Cheers, Ada On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Wolfgang Lindner wrote: > Dear list, > > I think about using Octave to teach parts of G.Strang's: Introduction to Linear > Algebra. There is MatLAB code to implement some procedures of the book at: > http://web.mit.edu/18.06/www > > Here are my questions: > - Has someone experiences in using Octave instead of MatLAB with that book? > - Has someone already ported (Moler's) teaching code to Octave? > (if that should be necessary at all, I can't foresee it at the moment, > because I'm a beginner in octave.) > > It would be nice if I could get some recommendations or some advice. > > Yours sincerely > Wolfgang > > -- > Wolfgang Lindner Lindner at math dot uni-duisburg dot de > Universität Duisburg-Essen, Standort Duisburg > Fakultaet 4 - Institut fuer Mathematik, LE 424 > Lotharstr. 65 Tel: +49 0203 379-1326 > D-47048 Duisburg Fax: +49 0203 379-2528 > > MuPAD: *---* > *---*| http://www.mupad.de/schule/lehrer/index.shtml#material > |*--|* http://www.mupad.de/schule+studium/literatur/index.shtml > *---* http://www.mupad.de/schule+studium/mikrowelten > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > Octave is freely available under the terms of the GNU GPL. > > Octave's home on the web: http://www.octave.org > How to fund new projects: http://www.octave.org/funding.html > Subscription information: http://www.octave.org/archive.html > ------------------------------------------------------------- > > ============================================================================ Ada Cheng acheng at member dot ams dot org Assistant Professor http://www.kettering.edu/~acheng Department of Science and Mathematics Kettering University 1700 West Third Avenue Flint, Michigan 48504-4898 U.S.A. ============================================================================ ------------------------------------------------------------- Octave is freely available under the terms of the GNU GPL. Octave's home on the web: http://www.octave.org How to fund new projects: http://www.octave.org/funding.html Subscription information: http://www.octave.org/archive.html -------------------------------------------------------------