Biography
Brian Hahn built his reputation at Cape Town teaching engineers to move confidently between analytic calculus and floating-point code. Essential MATLAB for Scientists and Engineers, first issued by Edward Arnold in the 1990s, paired concise explanations of matrices, eigenproblems and ODE solvers with scripts students could adapt directly in the laboratory; companion texts on C and Fortran extended the same pedagogy across languages. Colleagues remembered him for meticulous example code and for supervising theses that straddled numerical analysis and industrial modelling until his death in 2005.
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- Essential MATLAB for Scientists and Engineers
First published 1997 · Edward Arnold
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Brian Hahn's undergraduate introduction to MATLAB for scientific and engineering computing. Covers the MATLAB language itself, applied numerical methods (roots, integration, ODEs, linear systems), and the visualization tools needed for engineering coursework and final-year pro…