Math 620 - Numerical Analysis

Fall 2016 - Andrei Draganescu

Detailed Schedule

This schedule is tentative, and will continously suffer corrections.
The chapter numbers refer to the text, Kendall E. Atkinson, An Introduction to Numerical Analysis, second edition, Wiley, 1989.

Class	Date	Topic	Section(s)
1	We 08/31	Introduction
2	We 09/07	Taylor's theorem and applications. Nonlinear equations: bisection method.	1.1, 2.1
3	Mo 09/12	Nonlinear equations: Newton's method.	2.2
4	We 09/14	Nonlinear equations: Newton's method (cont.), secant method.	2.2, 2.3
5	Mo 09/19	Nonlinear equations: the fixed point method.	2.5
6	We 09/21	Matrix norms. The contraction principle for vector equations.	7.3, 2.10
7	Mo 09/26	Nonlinear equations: Newton's method for vector equations.	2.11
8	We 09/28	Nonlinear equations: Newton's method for vector equations (cont.)	2.11
9	Mo 10/03	Polynomial interpolation theory.	3.1
10	We 10/05	Newton divided differences.	3.2
11	Mo 10/10	Hermite interpolation.	3.6
12	We 10/12	Piecewise polynomial interpolation.	3.7
13	Mo 10/17	Spline interpolation.	3.7
14	We 10/19	Least-squares approximation.	4.2, 4.3
15	Mo 10/24
16	We 10/26	Midterm exam.
17	Mo 10/31
18	We 11/02
19	Mo 11/07
20	We 11/09
21	Mo 11/14
22	We 11/16
23	Mo 11/21
24	We 11/23
25	Mo 11/28
26	We 11/30
27	Mo 12/05
28	We 12/07
29	Mo 12/12
	Mo 12/19	3:30-5:30 PM Final Exam. Note the date and time!

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