18.330 Numerical Analysis (2008)

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General

Instructor Yossi Farjoun
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.
Location MWF 2-3pm in 2-132

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 sememster)
  • 15% Written H/W (about 1 per week)
  • 15% Programming H/W (about 1 per 2 weeks)
  • 20% Each of 2 midterms (The first one is scheduled for Mar 10, 2008)
  • 40% Final

Syllabus

This is a work in progress, but I intend to cover the following topics, more-or-less in the order they appear:

  • Zero-finding
  • Interpolation
    • Polynomial
    • Spline
  • LU Decomposition
  • Some Linear Algebra
  • Integration
  • Numerical Solutions to ODE
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