Prentice Hall and The MathWorks Inc have joined forces to bring the industry standard software tool used by engineers and scientists into the classroom. This modified student version allows users to perform matrix manipulations, numerical computations, and data analyisis in a quick and easy-to-use fashion. Key features include: problems and solutions are expressed just as they are written mathematically, so no programming is required; numerical problems can be solved in a fraction of the time taken to write a program in Fortran, Basic or C; the complete integrated system includes graphics, programming macros, IEEE arithmetic, a fast interpreter, and many analytical commands; also, it performs eigenvalues, matrix arithmetic, matrix decompositions, convolution, spectrum estimation, linear equation solving, differential equations and 1-D and 2-D FFTs.