Mathematics

Function Functions

This chapter describes function functions, MATLAB functions that work with mathematical functions instead of numeric arrays. It includes:

Function Summary

A summary of some function functions

Representing Functions in MATLAB

Some guidelines for representing functions in MATLAB

Plotting Mathematical Functions

A discussion about using fplot to plot mathematical functions

Minimizing Functions and Finding Zeros

A discussion of high-level function functions that perform optimization-related tasks

Numerical Integration (Quadrature)

A discussion of the MATLAB quadrature functions

Note    See the Differential Equations and Sparse Matrices chapters for information about the use of other function functions.

FFT Length Versus Speed

Function Summary