Harmonics

Rune Allnor wrote:


> 
> In 20 years a student can just as well skip university and spend
> the $$ on a matlab lisence + documentation instead. 


I think, Norbert Wiener said something like that:

"The machine is only the amplifier. It can't be the substitute for the 
brain"

VLV

Vladimir Vassilevsky skrev:
> Rune Allnor wrote:
>
>
> >
> > In 20 years a student can just as well skip university and spend
> > the $$ on a matlab lisence + documentation instead.
>
>
> I think, Norbert Wiener said something like that:
>
> "The machine is only the amplifier. It can't be the substitute for the
> brain"
> 
> VLV

Try and tell that to anyone...

Rune

"Rune Allnor" <allnor@tele.ntnu.no> writes:
> [...]

> As for the index question, the 1,..,N indexing is used in linear
> algebra, which is what matlab was developed for, so it is unlikely
> that it will ever change.

Agreed. I've experienced the "1=based" indexing in linear algebra in a
particularly intimate way this past semester from my numerical
analysis class and text [demmel] and the associated computer labs.

Matlab's very meaning is "matrix laboratory."

@BOOK{demmel,
  title = "{Applied Numerical Linear Algebra}",
  author = "{James~W.~Demmel}",
  publisher = "SIAM",
  year = "1997"}

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