Math 5600, Spring 2005

Mathematics 5600

Survey of Numerical Analysis

Spring 2005

Time and Place: T,H 9:10-10:30am, JTB 120
Instructor: Grady Wright, JWB 126, 581-8649, Email:

Office Hours: T,W,H 10:35-11:45am and by appointment.

Please see the syllabus for more information.

Homework

See "How to Present your Work" for instructions on writing up your homework assignments. You may also be interested in this page describing some basic mathematical symbols.

Assignment	Solutions	Notes
HW01	HW01 Solutions	ramanujan_pi.m, compute_e.m, plot_approx_e.m
HW02	HW02 Solutions	utah.bmp, gauss_seidel.m
HW03		neville.m
HW04		trig_interp.m
HW05
HW06	Last homework assignment!	euler.m, ex1f.m, ex1Euler.m

Final Project

As discussed in the syllabus, there will be a final project instead of a final exam. Information about the final project can be found here.

MATLAB

For some introductory tutorials in MATLAB, please see the following links:

Really good introduction to the basics of MATLAB developed by Kristian Sandberg at the University of Colorado.
Really good introduction to programming in MATLAB from Prof. Sandberg.
Another really good introduction to more advanced programming in MATLAB from me and Prof. Sandberg
Introductory tutorials from MathWorks (the creators of MATLAB).
A basic overview of MATLAB from the Math departments Undergraduate Computing Lab.

Miscellaneous

Here are some of my applets related to numerical analysis.
Fractals generated from Newton's method.
A list of some disasters caused by numerical errors.

Please e-mail me regarding any problems with the links on this page.