Technical Articles

Cleve's Corner Supplement

By Cleve Moler, MathWorks


This is a supplement to the Cleve's Corner article, "Trigonometry is a Complex Subject"

An m-file for the visualization of functions of a complex variable is zviz.m.

Some examples include:

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z

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1/z

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2/z 

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sqrt(z) 

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log(z) 

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exp(-1/z2) 

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sin(z) 

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cos(z) 

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tan(z) 

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sinh(z) 

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cosh(z) 

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tanh(z) 

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asin(z) 

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acos(z) 

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atan(z) 

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asinh(z) 

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acosh(z) 

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atanh(z) 

Published 1998