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Contents

R2020a

Live Editor Tasks: Interactively solve equations, simplify symbolic expressions, and generate MATLAB code in a live script . . . . . . . . . . . .

1-2

Number Theory: Evaluate the Euler phi function, Jacobi symbol, and find rational fraction approximations and primitive roots . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

1-2

Differential Equations: Return solutions of differential equations in implicit form or truncated series expansion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

1-2

Physical Units: New physical constants and application of 2019 SI redefinition to symbolic units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

1-2

Symbolic Constants: Use symbolic logical constants for true and false conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Functionality being removed or changed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MuPAD notebook has been removed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . sym('pi') now creates a symbolic variable named pi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . mod will no longer find the modulus for each coefficient of a symbolic polynomial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

1-3 1-3 1-3 1-3 1-3

R2019b

Calculus: Apply integration by parts and integration by substitution to integrals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

2-2

Integral: Return unevaluated integral . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

2-2

Display Formula: Display symbolic formula from string . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

2-2

Live Editor: Copy and paste symbolic outputs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

2-2

Number Conversion: Convert a decimal number to binary or hexadecimal notation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-2 Functionality being removed or changed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . mfun and mfunlist have been removed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . dsolve and odeToVectorField will no longer support character vector or string inputs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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R2019a

Animations: Create animations from symbolic expressions . . . . . . . . . . .

3-2

Symbolic Types: Categorize symbolic objects by type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

3-2

Display Output: Change the display of symbolic output . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

3-2

Scientific Display: Display symbolic variables with accents, subscripts, and superscripts in standard mathematical notation . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

3-2

Integral Transforms: Evaluate the Hilbert transform and its inverse analytically . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

3-2

hurwitzZeta Function: Evaluate the Hurwitz zeta function analytically ..........................................................

3-2

R2018b

unitConvert Function: Convert physical values between units or unit systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

4-2

besselh Function: Evaluate the Hankel function analytically . . . . . . . . . .

4-2

nthroot Function: Calculate the nth root of symbolic expressions . . . . . .

4-2

sinc Function: Work with the sinc function analytically . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

4-2

mathml Function: Generate MathML markup from symbolic expressions ..........................................................

4-2

Variable Assumptions: syms clears assumptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

4-2

Functionality being removed or changed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . symengine, feval, evalin, and read are not recommended for symbolic calculations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . reset is not recommended . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . syms will no longer support clear option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

4-2 4-2 4-3 4-3

R2018a

Polynomial Operations: Calculate the degree, resultant, and reduction of polynomials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-2

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Groebner Basis: Calculate the Groebner basis and eliminate variables from equations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

5-2

Number Theory: Calculate perfect powers, modular powers, and prime numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

5-2

Physical Units: Convert between more unit systems, use more physical dimensions, and display mixed units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

5-2

MATLAB Live Scripts: Convert MuPAD notebooks, which will be removed in a future release, to MATLAB live scripts by using convertMuPADNotebook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

5-2

Functionality being removed or changed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

5-3

R2017b

Unit Systems: Convert between SI and US units and create custom systems of units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

6-2

Unit Information: Get information on units and physical dimensions with the unitInfo function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-2 Symbolic String Evaluation: Evaluate strings as symbolic expressions with the str2sym function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Special Functions: Calculate the Meijer G-function, elliptic nome function, Jacobi zeta function, and Jacobi elliptic functions . . . . . . . . .

6-2

6-2

Code Generation Comments: Add comments to code generated from symbolic expressions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

6-3

Functionality being removed or changed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

6-3

R2017a

Units: Use physical units in symbolic calculations with the symunit function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

7-2

Live Scripts: Convert more MuPAD notebooks to MATLAB live scripts with the convertMuPADNotebook function, including notebooks with MuPAD procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-2 Isolate Variables: Rearrange equation to isolate a variable or expression on the left side . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

7-2

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Decompose Equations: Extract the left and right side of an equation with the lhs and rhs functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-2 Fibonacci Numbers: Compute Fibonacci numbers with fibonacci . . . . . . .

7-2

Functionality being removed or changed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

7-3

R2016b

MATLAB Live Scripts: Convert more MuPAD notebooks automatically to MATLAB live scripts using the convertMuPADNotebook function . . . . Piecewise Expressions: Define conditional symbolic expressions with the piecewise function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

8-2

8-2

Plotting Implicit Functions: Plot implicit symbolic functions in 2-D and 3D with MATLAB fimplicit and fimplicit3 functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-2 Numerical Integration: Integrate symbolic expressions using variableprecision arithmetic with the vpaintegral function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Prime Numbers: Find prime numbers with MATLAB prevprime and nextprime functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

8-2

8-2

Fold vector: Combine elements of vector with MATLAB fold function . . .

8-2

Simscape Component Variables in MATLAB Workspace: Load the names of the component variables as symbolic functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

8-2

Functionality being removed or changed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

8-3

R2016a

Live Scripts: Edit symbolic code and visualize results in MATLAB Live Editor, and convert MuPAD notebooks to MATLAB live scripts . . . . . . .

9-2

Plotting: Create 2-D, 3-D, contour, surface, and mesh plots with MATLAB fplot, fplot3, fcontour, fsurf, and fmesh functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

9-2

Simscape Component Generation: Create custom components directly from symbolic math equations for use in dynamic simulation . . . . . . .

9-2

MATLAB cell2sym and sym2cell simplify conversions between symbolic and cell arrays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MATLAB nchoosek accepts a vector as its first argument . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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9-2 9-2

MATLAB sym creates multidimensional arrays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

9-3

Functionality being removed or changed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

9-3

R2015b

Fourier and Laplace transforms and their inverses for a wider variety of input expressions, including hyperbolic functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

10-2

MATLAB series function for computing Puiseux series expansion . . . . .

10-2

MATLAB hermiteForm and smithForm functions for computing Hermite and Smith normal forms of matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-2 Sparse argument for matlabFunction, odeFunction, and daeFunction for using sparse instead of dense matrices in generated MATLAB functions ......................................................... 10-2 MATLAB has function for searching subexpressions in a symbolic expression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

10-2

MATLAB root function for representing roots of polynomials . . . . . . . .

10-2

New Symbolic Math Toolbox examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

10-2

Functionality being removed or changed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

10-4

R2015a

MATLAB functionalDerivative function for finding derivatives of functionals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

11-2

MATLAB odeFunction for converting systems of algebraic expressions to MATLAB functions suitable for ode45 and other ODE solvers . . . . . . 11-2 MATLAB partfrac function for computing partial fraction decomposition ......................................................... 11-2 MATLAB sympref function for specifying preferences for symbolic functions fourier, ifourier, and heaviside . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

11-2

Optimize argument for controlling code optimization in generated MATLAB functions returned by matlabFunction, odeFunction, and daeFunction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

11-2

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MuPAD isolate function for rearranging an equation so that the variable or expression appears on the left side . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-2 FactorMode argument offering different modes of factorization returned by MATLAB factor function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-3 Reverse accumulation option for cumsum and cumprod functions . . . .

11-3

MATLAB functions chol, lu, qr, and rank now return certain outputs as type double . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

11-3

MATLAB functions assume, assumeAlso, assumptions, sym, and syms have changes to assumptions mechanism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

11-3

MATLAB function combine combines additional expressions . . . . . . . . .

11-4

New and updated Symbolic Math Toolbox examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

11-4

MATLAB solve function uses default MaxDegree value of 2 . . . . . . . . . .

11-4

MuPAD functions taylor and mtaylor error when they cannot find a Taylor series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-5 MuPAD orthogonal polynomial functions return polynomial expressions ......................................................... 11-5 MATLAB function sym treats i in character vectors as a variable . . . . . .

11-5

Functionality being removed or changed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

11-5

R2014b

MATLAB solve function returning parameters and conditions in solutions ......................................................... 12-2 Functions for analyzing and reducing systems of differential algebraic equations (DAEs), such as isLowIndexDAE and reduceDAEIndex . . . .

12-2

MATLAB functions representing orthogonal polynomials: chebyshevT, chebyshevU, legendreP, laguerreL, hermiteH, jacobiP, and gegenbauerC ......................................................... 12-3 MATLAB pade function for computing Padé approximation . . . . . . . . . .

12-3

funm function for computing matrix functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

12-3

MATLAB kummerU function for computing confluent hypergeometric (Kummer U) function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

12-3

MATLAB polylog function for computing polylogarithms . . . . . . . . . . . .

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MATLAB signIm function for computing signs of imaginary parts of complex numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MATLAB in function for representing conditions on symbolic inputs . .

12-4 12-4

MATLAB divisors function for finding divisors of integers and polynomials ......................................................... 12-4 MATLAB functions nnz and nonzeros for finding nonzero elements in a symbolic array . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MATLAB pochhammer function to calculate Pochhammer symbol . . . . MATLAB kroneckerDelta function for computing the Kronecker delta function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MATLAB dirac function with two input arguments for computing derivatives of the Dirac delta function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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12-4

MATLAB isAlways function warns when returning false for undecidable inputs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

12-5

MuPAD generate::fortran function can use Fortran 90 as the target compiler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

12-5

MATLAB mod function for computing modulus after division . . . . . . . .

12-5

MATLAB gcd and lcm functions accept vectors and matrices . . . . . . . . .

12-6

MATLAB rem function accepts vectors and matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

12-6

MATLAB factor function only accepts scalar inputs and returns vector of factors of input . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-6 MuPAD Notebook app supports left and right double square brackets ......................................................... Functionality being removed or changed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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R2014a

MATLAB functions for computing special integrals, gamma functions, dilogarithm function, and number-theoretic functions . . . . . . . . . . . .

13-2

MATLAB function qr for computing symbolic QR factor...