MAT360: Numerical Analysis

• Syllabus
• Assignments
• Learning Objectives
• Classroom Agreement
• Class notes from tablet PC
• Your Project

• Here's the last test 1 that I gave (I told you it was tough!)

• Daily Agendas/Summaries

  Chapter 1: Day 1: Welcome! Day 2: section 1.1 Day 3: more on 1.1 Day 4: section 1.2 Day 5: encore Day 6: section 1.3 Day 7: More on section 1.3 Chapter 2: Day 8: Bisection Day 9: Fixed-Point Iteration Day 10: More Fixed-Point Iteration Day 11: Newton's Method Day 12: Newton's Method -- encore! Day 13: Error analysis Day 14: More Error analysis Day 15: Leading up to Muller Day 16: Muller's method Day 17: Exam I Day 18: Finish Muller

  Chapter 3: Day 19: Lagrange Interpolation Day 20: Lagrange Interpolation Day 21: Neville's Method Day 22: Finite-Differences Day 23: Hermite Interpolation Day 24: More Hermite Interpolation Day 25: Spline lab Day 26: Splines and Linear Algebra Day 27: More Splines, maybe 4.1 Chapter 4: Day 28: Differentiation Day 29: Class cancelled Day 30: Differentiation, Richardson's Day 31: Richardson's, Integration Day 32: Elemental Integration Day 33: More Elemental Integration Day 34: Composite Integration Day 35: Exam II Day 36: Adaptive Quadrature

  Chapter 5: Day 37: DE Intro Day 38: DE Intro (cont.) Day 39: Section 5.1 Day 40: Section 5.1 Day 41: Section 5.2 Day 42: Section 5.3 Day 43: Section 5.4 Day 44: Section 5.4

• Mathematica files for homework:

  3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4

  4.1 4.2 4.3

• norsemathology.org wiki materials
• If you like, you can use Blackboard for discussion of homework
• Textbook homepage
• The first two chapters of the Student Study Guide are available for free.
• Various versions of the software for the algorithms
• Numerical Recipes
• Abramowitz and Stegun: Handbook of Mathematical Functions
• mat360.lsp -- lisp routines used throughout the semester
• When it comes time for course evaluations, please visit this site.

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