Lecture Outlines

  • Overview, Introduction to floating point arithmetic
    Reading: Chapters 1,2,5 in Greenbaum/Chartier text
    Additional reading: Chapter 2 in Bindel/Goodman text
  • Nonlinear equations in one variable
    Bisection, Newton's method, secant method, fixed point iteration
    Reading: Chapter 4 in Greenbaum/Chartier text
    Additional reading: Chapter 2 in Bindel/Goodman text
  • More on nonlinear equations in one variable, numerical linear algebra
    Reading: Chapters 6,7 in Greenbaum/Chartier text
    Additional reading: Chapters 3-5 in Bindel/Goodman text
  • Dense matrix methods in linear algebra
    LU and Cholesky factorizations, matrix norms, condition number, stability analysis
    Reading: Chapters 7,12 in Greenbaum/Chartier text
    Additional reading: Chapters 3-5 in Bindel/Goodman text
  • Dense matrix methods in linear algebra
    QR and SVD factorizations, least squares problems
    Reading: Chapters 7,8,12 in Greenbaum/Chartier text
    Additional reading: Chapters 3-5,7 in Bindel/Goodman text
  • Polynomial interpolations, Hermite interpolation, Splines
    Numerical differentiation, Richardson extrapolation
    Reading: Chapters 8,9 in Greenbaum/Chartier text
  • Numerical integration (quadrature)
    Trapezoidal and midpoint rules, Newton-Cotes, Gaussian and adaptive quadrature
    Reading: Chapter 10 in Greenbaum/Chartier text
  • The Euler-MacLaurin formula, infinite intervals, singular integrals, periodic functions, trigonometric interpolation
    Reading: Chapter 10 in Greenbaum/Chartier text
  • The Fast Fourier transform, filtering, and convolution
    Reading: supplemental notes
  • Ordinary differential equations
    Existence/uniqueness, Euler's method, Runge-Kutta methods, linear multistep methods, stability theory
    Reading: Chapter 11 in Greenbaum/Chartier text