Can anyone give me a short summary about MATLAB? ?

Question

Can anyone give me a short summary about MATLAB? ?

Answer 1

It can do highly sophisticated maths equations. I used it in an artificial intelligence module at university.

Answer 2

Matlab is a simulation software. You can sketch curves, do calculations, etc.  

Answer 3

Matlab can be used as a research/mathematics/engineering tool to process numeric data but it can also handle symbolic equations with separated toolbox($).

Matlab is preferred over some other solutions (Octave, Scilab, Python, Java, C++, ...) because:

1) It has highly optimized mathematic functions for many research fields (image, finance, signal, probability, artificial intelligence, ...)

2) It has multiple ways to visualize your data

   -In research you spend lots of time visualizing your computations

3) It is has easy but effective programming language (M, m-code, matlab) specially designed for matrix calculations

4) You can use Java inside Matlab programs

5) It has been available quite a long time so it is almost industry standard

6) Many different research fields can communicate better when all of them use the same language

7) It has some (easy to use) parallel computing tools