References

Course Book

Lars Eldén and Linde Wuttneter–Koch
Numeriska beräkningar med Matlab
ISBN: 9789144020075
Studentlitteratur 2001

Suggested reading

(1) MATLAB Tutorials from MathWorks
(2) Books by Cleve Moler

Open Source/Free alternatives to MATLAB

(1) GNU Octave: Mostly compatible with MATLAB, no GUI, plots using Gnuplot.
(2) Scilab: Supports MATLAB-2-Scilab conversion, with GUI.