This tutorial was prepared for our freshman engineering students using the student version of MATLAB, because symbolic computations are covered in almost no introductory textbook. We are pleased to make it available to the international community, and would appreciate suggestions for its improvement. MATLAB’s symbolic engine permits the user to do things easily that are difficult or impossible to do numerically
To locate the theory of Lie groups within mathematics, one can say that Lie
groups are groups with some additional structure that permits us to apply
analytic techniques such as differentiation in a group theoretic context.
