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. |
| Reader | This is a Work-In-Progress reader. More about this Reader |
| 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
