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Monthly Archives: January 2017
Good Times in MATLAB: How to Typeset the Multiplication Symbol
The MATLAB output >> A = rand(2); whos Name Size Bytes Class Attributes A 2×2 32 double will be familiar to seasoned users. Consider this, however, from MATLAB R2016b: >> s = string({‘One’,’Two’}) s = 1×2 string array “One” “Two” … Continue reading
Hyphenation of Compound Words
Compound words are common in mathematical writing and it can be hard to remember how to hyphenate them. Unfortunately, there are no hard and fast rules. In this article I give some guidance and illustrative examples. The principle to keep … Continue reading
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MATLAB Guide, Third Edition (2017)
The third edition of MATLAB Guide, which I co-wrote with Des Higham, has just been published by SIAM. It is a major update of the second edition (2005) to reflect the many changes in MATLAB over the last twelve years, … Continue reading
Taking Up the SIAM Presidency
I am honored to be taking over the reins from Pam Cook as president of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) for the next two years, starting January 1, 2017. Pam remains as past-president during 2017. I look … Continue reading