[Pkg-octave-devel] Re: a new octave book and octave based course

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* Christophe Prud'homme <christophe.prudhomme at epfl.ch> [2006-11-02 09:55]:

> - a new Octave book
> ===================
> 
> A new edition of the book "Scientific Computing with MATLAB" by A. Quarteroni 
> and F. Saleri is out and has been renamed
> "Scientific Computing with MATLAB and Octave"
> 
> have a look for example at
> http://www.amazon.com/Scientific-Computing-Computational-Science-Engineering/dp/354032612X/sr=8-4/qid=1162456559/ref=pd_bbs_sr_4/102-9952161-4338553?ie=UTF8&s=books
> 
> I was the person in charge of adapting the book and porting  the scripts for 
> Octave and I used octave 2.1.73 and octave 2.9.6 [*]. Note however that parts 
> of the book work only with 2.9.x x >= 6 (eg the chapter on Partial 
> differential equations which needs sparse matrix supports).

Great.  Thanks for the announcement.

> [*] both provided by Debian thanks to the Debian Octave group and R.
>     Laboissiere

Thank you for packaging UFSparse for Debian.  Without it, it would be not
possible to release a fully functional octave2.9 package.

-- 
Rafael