Math 581 Announcements

Review problems for Midterm #1

Download Midterm #1 for practice

Project on grown of a rounding error. Calculating the number Pi

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Sample codes for the course can be found here

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Math 581a, TR 7pm-8:15pm JR217

The course is intended to give a comprehensive treatment to numerical algorithms for solving the linear systems of algebraic equations. The computation errors and stability of the numerical procedures will be studied from the prospective of finite precision calculations. Will be considered the direct methods of matrix inversion, e.g., LU factorization and Cholesky factorization, the iterative methods, e.g., Jacobi, Gauss-Seidel, and SOR methods. Methods for solving the eigenvalue problem will be studied, including Power Iteration, the QR method, and the Jacobi method. 3 credits, 2 classes per week, 1 midterm, 1 final exam.

The syllabus for the course can be downloaded here: Adobe Acrobat (58.8K) ,

Textbooks. N.J.~Higham, Accuracy and Stability of Numerical Algorithms, SIAM, Philadelphia, 1996. ISBN 0-89871-355-2 paperback.

N.~Gastinel, Linear Numerical Analysis, Hermann, Paris, France, 1970.

Supplementary Texts. REA's Problem Solvers, The Numerical Analysis Problem Solver, (revised edition), Research and Education Association, 61 Ethel Rd.~W, Piscataway, New Jersey, 08854, 1993. ISBN 0-87891-549-4 hardback

G.~Dahlquist and A.~Bjork, Numerical Methods, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1974. ISBN 0-13-627315-7

O.~Axelsson, Iterative Solution Methods, Cambridge University Press, 1994. ISBN 0-521-44524-8 hardback

J.~Stoer and R.~Burlisch, Introduction to Numerical Analysis, Second Edition, Springer-Verlag, 1992. ISBN 0-387-97878-X

E.~Suli and D.~Mayers, An Introduction to Numerical Analysis, Cambridge University Press, 2003. ISBN 0-521-81026-4 hardback, 0-521-00794-1 paperback
Classes schedule:
TR 7:00pm-8:15pm JR217.
The office hours will be TR 11:00am--1:00pm, but you can try to talk to me TR mornings as well.

The final for this class falls on Tuesday, December 19, 2006, 8pm--10pm in JR 217. The place will be announced later