MAT360: Numerical Analysis

• Syllabus
• Assignments
• Learning Objectives
• Projects:
  • Project 1: see Assignments for a description
  • Project 2
  • Project 3

• Daily Agendas/Summaries

  Chapter 1 and 2: Day 1: Welcome! Day 2: sections 1.3 and 1.4 Day 3: still making errors.... Day 4: machine representations Day 5: machine representations Day 6: Algorithm mishaps Chapter 3: Day 7: An approach to root finding Day 8: Intro root finding Day 9: More root finding Day 10: More root finding Day 11: More root finding Day 12: Exam 1 Day 13: Wrapping up root finding snow day Day 14: Wrapping up root finding snow day

  Chapter 5: Day 15: Interpolation Day 16: More Interpolation Day 17: Big-Oh, Secant convergence Day 18: Splines Day 19: Splines/Differentiation Chapter 7: Day 19: Splines/Differentiation Day 20: Differentiation/Integration Day 21: Review/Integration Day 22: Exam 2 Day 23: Composite integration Day 24: Adaptive quadrature Chapter 8: Day 25: Euler's method Day 26: Taylor methods Day 27: Runge-Kutta methods Day 28: Final thoughts

• Some results that I've worked up:
  • order of convergence of the secant method
  • quadratics don't have to look like ax^2+bx+c

• If you like, you can use Blackboard for discussion of homework
• Numerical Recipes
• Abramowitz and Stegun: Handbook of Mathematical Functions
• mat360.lsp -- some lisp routines I may use throughout the semester
• When it comes time for course evaluations, please visit eval.nku.edu.
• norsemathology.org wiki materials

Notes:

• Feel free to email me with your questions.
• Departmental Syllabus
• Taking tests in my classes
• Suggestions for the NKU Math/CS student