Matlab is an interactive computing environment for numerical computation, visualization, and programming. The document provides an introduction and overview of Matlab, including what Matlab is, the Matlab screen interface, variables and arrays, basic math operations, plotting functions, control structures like if/else and for loops, using m-files, and writing user-defined functions. Key features of Matlab covered are the command window, workspace, command history, generating matrices and vectors, element-wise operations, relational and logical operators, and file input/output statements.