Course Announcements

5/2/23

1. Comments on the Experiments and derivations of the errors and methods for Graded Homework 5 have been posted.

4/27/23

1. Comments on the Experiments for Graded Homework 4 have been posted.

4/24/23

1. Sets 14 and 15 of the class notes have been posted.

2. Set 16 of the class notes on solving linear recurrences has been posted. This is related to 0-stability and absolute stability of linear multistep methods for ODEs.

4/21/23

1. Graded Homework 6 has been posted. It is due on the last day of Final Exam week. When computing the final grade the lowest grade of the 6 graded homework assignments will be discarded.

2. Study Question Set 5 and the solutions have been posted.

3. The date and time of the Final Exam taken from the Registrar's exam schedule has been posted.

4/6/23

1. Set 13 of the class notes has been posted.

4/5/23

1. Study Question Set 4 and the solutions have been posted.

2. Graded Homework 5 has been posted.

4/3/23

1. Set 12 of the class notes has been posted.

3/29/23

1. Set 11 of the class notes has been posted.

3/24/23

1. Set 10 of the class notes has been posted.

3/23/23

1. Solutions for Graded Homework 3 written questions have been posted.

2. Study Questions Set 3 and the solutions have been posted.

3/21/23

1. Graded Homework 4 has been posted.

3/20/23

1. Set 9 of the class notes has been posted.

3/6/23

1. Location and time for the Midterm Exam has been posted on the Exam Information page.

2/27/23

1. Solutions for Graded Homework 2 have been posted.

2/26/23

1. Graded Homework 3 has been posted.
2. The typo in numbering of Study Questions Set 2 has been fixed and the file reposted.

3. Information about the midterm exam has been posted on the exam information page. This includes a request for times you are available.

2/24/23

The due date of Graded Homework 2 is extended until 11:59PM, Sunday February 26, 2023.

2/21/23

1. The problem with the figures in Study Questions Set 2 has been fixed and some extra clarifying detail has been added to the solution of problem 1. Make sure to read and understand this solution in particular. It applies some of the convergence analysis technique used for Newton to general iterations.

2/20/23

1. Study Questions Set 2 and the solutions have been posted.

2/13/23

1. Graded Homework 2 has been posted.

2/6/23

1. Sets 5, 6, 7 and 8 of the class notes have been posted. These are the second part of nonlinear equation solving and all of the sets on polynomial-based interpolation/regression.

2. Solutions for Graded Homework 1 have been posted.

1/27/23

1. Solutions for Study Questions Set 1 have been posted.

1/23/23

1. Graded Homework 1 and Study Questions Set 1 have been posted.

1/18/23

1. Sets 3 and 4 of the class notes have been posted.

1/13/23

1. Set 2 of the class notes has been posted.

1/9/23

1. The class syllabus, "A Note on Reporting Programming Assignment Results", and some example homework solutions have been posted.

2. Information on the grading of the written homework problems has been posted.

3. Set 1 of the class notes has been posted.

4. The paper "What Every Computer Scientist Should Know about Floating Point Arithmetic", David Goldberg, ACM Computing Surveys has been posted. This is for reference only. You are not required to read it for this class.