18.330 Numerical Analysis
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General
| Instructor | Yossi Farjoun, yfarjoun@math.mit.edu |
| Grader | Sivan Braun; Office hours: TBA |
| Prerequisites | 18.03 or 18.034 |
| Textbook | Numerical Analysis, Burden and Faires however, it is not required. Do not feel obliged to buy this book. |
| Reader | This reader is a work-in-progress reader, please let me know of any typos/corrections etc. |
| Location | TR 11-12:30 in 2-135 |
| Office hours | 2-334 (Tentative) MW 3:30-5pm |
| Website (this one!) | http://scripts.mit.edu/~yfarjoun/homepage/index.php?title=18.330_Numerical_Analysis |
Grades
The course will have written assignments, programming assignments, quizzes, mid-terms and a final. The grade will be determined by averaging:
- 10% Quizzes (about 5 throughout the semester)
- 10% Written H/W (about 10 total) No late submissions, grade is based on best 70%
- 25% Programming H/W (about 6 total) Must submit all but 1 to pass course
- 15% Each of 2 midterms
- 25% Final
Syllabus
- Calculus Review
- Iterative solutions of algebraic equations
- Chord method
- Secant method
- Newton's method
- Enough Linear Algebra for our needs
- Solution of triangular systems
- LU decomposition of tridiagonal matrices
- Solution of non-linear ODE
- Numerical Interpolation
- Polynomial
- Spline
- Numerical Integration
- Trapezoidal Rule
- Simpson's Method
- Numerical Solutions to PDE (Introduction)
Course Progress
| 3.2.2008 | Calculus review. Continuous functions, Differential functions |
Homework given
None yet! Watch this space!
