Evangelos A. Coutsias, Math 375

Math/CS 375: Fundamentals of Numerical Analysis

Class meets: -- M W F 10:00-10:50, Room ME 310

Recitation Lab hours: ME 310 -- M 14:30-16:00, T 16:00-17:30

Instructor: Evangelos A. Coutsias

Required Text: A. Quarteroni & F. Saleri

Scientific Computing with MATLAB

Texts in Computational Science and Engineering
Springer, NY 2003, ISBN 3-540-44363-0

Recommended Text: D.J. Higham and N.J. Higham,

Matlab Guide

SIAM, 2000 (ISBN 0-89871-469-9)

Homework Problems

The computing projects should be done using MATLAB
  • I. Numbers, approximation, errors (pdf) , (scripts)
  • II. Matrices and Vectors (pdf) ,
  • III. Functions (pdf) , (scripts)
  • IV. Errors (ppt) , (scripts)
  • A. Project 1 (due September 16) ,
  • A. Project 1 solutions,
  • IV. Zero-finding (ppt) , (scripts)
  • B. Project 2 (due September 30) ,
  • B. Project 2 solutions,
  • IV. Interpolation (ppt) , (scripts)
  • V. FFT and spectral analysis (ppt) , (scripts)
  • C. Project 3 (due October 21) , (sound files),
    • (Numbers)
  • C. Project 3 solutions,
  • VII. Numerical Differentiation and Integration , (scripts)
  • D. Project 4 (due November 11) ,
  • D. Project 4 solutions,
  • X. Numerical Linear Algebra 1: Linear Systems , (scripts)
  • E. Project 5 (due December 2) ,
  • E. Project 5 solutions,
  • XII. Ordinary Differential Equations , Euler methods (scripts)
  • F. Project 6 (due December 15) ,
  • F. Project 6 solutions,

    • Numerical Monsters paper

    MATLAB:

    If you are unfamiliar with MATLAB, click here for some help to get started

    SCILAB:

    scilab web site

    OCTAVE:

    octave web site

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    Last updated: September 15, 1997