CS412, Fall 01: an old dated on-line syllabus

CS412, Fall 01 - the obsolete syllabus




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Week 1:

Intro to NA, loss of significance, order of convergence. Introduction to Matlab: in-class demo 1intro Fixed point algorithms.

Week 2:

Fixed point algorithms. Newton's method. Bisection and secant method. In class demo: 2find_roots

Week 3:

Polynomial Interpolation: Vandermonde, Lagrange and Newton. Divided Differences. In-class demo 3inter

Week 4:

Polynomial interpolation: nested multipication, error analysis, Hermite interpolation.

Week 5:

Spline interpolation, and cubic-Hermite interpolation.

Week 6:

Error analysis of spline and cubic-hermite interpolation. Linear Algebra.