MATH/CSE 455, Fall 2003: Introduction
to Numerical Analysis I
Section 001: MW 12:20pm-1:10pm, 107 Wartik, and F 12:20pm-1:10pm
216 Osmond.
Instructor: Constantin
Bacuta, 328 McAllister, Phone
:
865-1984, E-mail
:bacuta@math.psu.edu
Office hours: T 10:00-11:00 AM , Th 1:30-2:30 PM, or by appointment.
Web page: http://www.math.psu.edu/bacuta/
Academic Integrity Statement: All Penn
State Policies regarding ethics and honorable behavior apply to this
course.
Course Description: The course will provide an introduction
to the basics of the modern numerical analysis and its techniques when
applied to various problems of analysis and algebra. Various numerical
techniques and algorithms for some classical problems will be considered.
Some essential theoretical properties of these numerical techniques will
also be studied in more detail. Students may take only one course for credit
from MATH 451 and 455. Students wishing to learn more about implementation
of these basic algorithms may consider to take MATH/CSE 451.
Text Book:Numerical
Analysis:Mathematics of Scientific Computing, Third Edition, by Cheney
and Kincaid, published by Brooks/Cole, 2000. ISBN 0-534-38905-8
Material to be covered: Preliminaries-Chapter
1 (briefly) Chapters 2, 3, 4 Chapter 5 (if needed) ; Chapters 6, 7.
Homework: Homework sets will be due about
every one or two weeks. Late problem sets will not be accepted unless prior
permission is granted. No homework are accepted after the graded ones have
been returned.
MATLAB files
REVIEW for the FINAL :Click Here.
Exams:There will be one in-class midterm exam (Friday-October
17) and a two-hour comprehensive FINAL EXAM (Thursday, December 18, 12:20PM
in 107 Wartik).
Final Grade : Midterm exam (20%), Final exam (30%), Homework
and Quizzes (40%), Project (10%). The lowest grade for homework will be
dropped.
Attendance Policy: I encourage you to attend every class. In
borderline cases, attendance will be taken into consideration.
Prerequisites: Single variable calculus; matrix algebra. Some
knowledge of computer programming (MATLAB or C) would be very helpful.
CMPSC 201C, 201F, or CSE 103; MATH 230 or 231.
THIS SYLLABUS IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE.
UNIX
Tutorial
A brief
introduction on MATLAB, MATLAB tutorial
1 and MATLAB tutorial 2
Extensive
documentations of MATLAB at www.mathworks.com