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Julia & Ijulia Cheat-Sheet (For 18.Xxx at Mit) : Basics: Arithmetic and Functions of Numbers

The document provides an introduction and cheat sheet for using Julia and IJulia (Julia in Jupyter notebooks), including: - How to run Julia online or install it and start IJulia - Basic operations like defining variables, arithmetic, functions, matrices and vectors - Accessing portions and changing elements of matrices and vectors - Plotting functions

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Julia & Ijulia Cheat-Sheet (For 18.Xxx at Mit) : Basics: Arithmetic and Functions of Numbers

The document provides an introduction and cheat sheet for using Julia and IJulia (Julia in Jupyter notebooks), including: - How to run Julia online or install it and start IJulia - Basic operations like defining variables, arithmetic, functions, matrices and vectors - Accessing portions and changing elements of matrices and vectors - Plotting functions

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Julia & IJulia Cheat-sheet (for 18.

xxx at MIT)
Basics:
run Julia online
github.com/stevengj/julia-mit
installation & tutorial
ipython notebook
start IJulia browser
shift-return
execute input cell in IJulia
julialang.org

documentation;

juliabox.org

Defining/changing variables:
define variable x to be 3
[1,2,3] array/column-vector (1,2,3)
[1 2 3] 13 row-vector (1,2,3)

Arithmetic and functions of numbers:


3^7, 3^(8+2im)
sqrt(-5+0im)
exp(12)

x =

besselj(2,6)

Constructing a few simple matrices:


random length-12 vector or 124 matrix
with uniform random numbers in [0,1)
randn(12)
Gaussian random numbers (mean 0, std. dev. 1)
eye(5)
55 identity matrix I
linspace(1.2,4.7,100)
100 equally spaced points from 1.2 to 4.7
diagm(x)
matrix whose diagonal is the entries of x
rand(12), rand(12,4)

Portions of matrices and vectors:


x[2:12]
x[2:end]
A[5,1:3]
A[5,:]
diag(A)

the 2nd to 12th elements of x


the 2nd to the last elements of x
row vector of 1st 3 elements in 5th row of A
row vector of 5th row of A
vector of diagonals of A

natural log (ln), base-10 log (log10)


absolute value |5| or |2+3i|
compute sin(5/3)
compute Bessel function J2(6)

abs(-5), abs(2+3im)
sin(5pi/3)

set A to 34 matrix with rows 1,2,3,4 etc.


x[2] = 7
change x from (1,2,3) to (1,7,3)
A[2,1] = 0
change A2,1 from 5 to 0
u, v = (15.03, 1.2e-27)
set u=15.03, v=1.21027
f(x) = 3x
define a function f(x)
x -> 3x
an anonymous function

e12

log(3), log10(100)

x = 3

y =
A = [1 2 3 4; 5 6 7 8; 9 10 11 12]

mult., add, sub., divide numbers


compute 37 or 38+2i power
5 as a complex number

3*4, 7+4, 2-6, 8/3

Arithmetic and functions of vectors and matrices:


multiply/add every element of x by 3
x + y
element-wise addition of two vectors x and y
A*y, A*B
product of matrix A and vector y or matrix B
x * y
not defined for two vectors!
x .* y
element-wise product of vectors x and y
x .^ 3
every element of x is cubed
cos(x), cos(A)
cosine of every element of x or A
exp(A), expm(A)
exp of each element of A, matrix exp eA
x, A
conjugate-transpose of vector or matrix
x*y, dot(x,y), sum(conj(x).*y) three ways to compute x y
A \ b, inv(A)
return solution to Ax=b, or the matrix A1
, V = eig(A)
eigenvals and eigenvectors (columns of V) of A
x * 3, x + 3

Plotting (type using PyPlot first)


plot y vs. 0,1,2,3, or versus x
loglog(x,y), semilogx(x,y), semilogy(x,y)
log-scale plots
title(A title), xlabel(x-axis), ylabel(foo)
set labels
legend([curve 1, curve 2], northwest)
legend at upper-left
grid(), axis(equal)
add grid lines, use equal x and y scaling
title(Lthe curve $e^\sqrt{x}$) title with LaTeX equation
savefig(fig.png), savefig(fig.pdf) save PNG or PDF image
plot(y), plot(x,y)

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