Gilbert Strang concludes a lecture titled “Are Random Triangles Acute or Obtuse?” by saying, “I hope you like these topics in geometrical probability; linear algebra is a much bigger world. Mathematics is even bigger than linear algebra, slightly. And we allow calculus, every once in a while. And just enjoy.”
The gist of this quip is that
(*) Linear Algebra 
Now, Linear Algebra is synonymous with Matrix, as alluded to by the titles of at least two “bibles” in the field, namely “Matrix Computations” of late Gene Golub & Charles van Loan and “Matrix Analysis” of Roger Horn & Charles Johnson.
And MATLAB, is the Matrix Laboratory.
Here is where we are so far:
(**) MATLAB
In the first EXERCISE of The TeXbook, Donald Knuth coins the term TeXnician, referring to someone who has mastered the book (not Erdös’s “the Book”).
From time to time, TMW’s homepage puts up a flash that asks, in various languages, “Do you speak MATLAB?” Over one million people do, with different levels of “fluency.” Some are truly “MATLAB masters”—but that’s not a term.
Hence the coinage, MATLABician!
Some time from now, Webster’s dictionary defines MATLABician as an individual who has mastered, at least, the “art” of Matrices (as discussed above) and MATLAB.
