Math 371, Fall 2008, Numerical Methods for Engineers, Section 001
Instructor: Robert Krasny, 4830 East Hall, (734)-763-3505, krasny@umich.edu
Time/Location: TuTh 12pm-1:30pm, 2150 DOW
course description
lecture notes (caution: these notes have typos; for an updated version see
Math 471)
chapter 1, finite precision arithmetic
chapter 2, rootfinding
chapter 3, numerical linear algebra, boundary value problems
chapter 4, computing eigenvalues
chapter 5, approximation, interpolation, splines
homework
hw1 due: Tues Sept 16
hw2 due: Tues Sept 30
hw3 due: Tues Oct 14
hw4 due: Thurs Nov 6
hw5 due: Thurs Dec 4
exam review sheets
exam 1,
exam 2,
final
notes on using MATLAB
Matlab resources for students
The Origins of MATLAB, by Cleve Moler, December 2004
Interview with Peter Lax, AMS Notices, February 2006,
"... the astonishing phenomenon of the interaction of
solitons was discovered by numerical calculations ..."
Numerical Methods Resource Page
Disasters Attributable to Bad Computing, by Doug Arnold
Collection of Software Bugs, by Thomas Huckle
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