Electronic Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics

San Antonio, Texas, March 6-9, 2008

Paper S108

This is an electronic reprint, reproduced by permission of Pearson Education Inc. Originally appeared in the Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics, ISBN 0-321-64488-3, Copyright (C) 2009 by Pearson Education, Inc.


Matlab in Calculus I, Why Not?

Mili Shah


Loyola College in Maryland


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ABSTRACT

First there were slide rules, then there were calculators. How will the trend of technology in calculus continue? MATLAB! MATLAB is a fantastic software for the visualization and computation of mathematics. This paper discusses the various topics ranging from plotting to evaluating integrals that can be solved using MATLAB.

Keyword(s): calculus, Matlab