Course Content

The text book for this course is `Applied Numerical Analysis' by Curtis F. Gerald and Patrick O. Wheatley, sixth edition, Addison-Wesley, 1999.

In addition, consult the lecture notes.

The chapters in the book are:

0. Numerical Computing and Computers

  • L-1 What is numerical analysis?
  • L-2 The Bisection Method; Errors
  • L-3 Floating-Point Arithmetic
  • L-4 Floating-Point Arithmetic (continued); Measuring Efficiency

    1. Solving Nonlinear Equations

  • L-5 The secant method
  • L-6 Convergence of the secant method and Newton's method
  • L-7 Convergence and Acceleration
  • L-8 Roots of Polynomials
  • L-9 Multiple Roots; the golden section search method

    2. Solving Sets of Equations

  • L-10 Introduction to Linear Algebra
  • L-11 Elimination Methods
  • L-12 LU factorization
  • L-13 Cholesky decomposition and the cost of elimination
  • L-14 Improve numerical stability of LU by pivoting
  • L-15 LU with row pivoting continued
  • L-16 Condition Numbers
  • L-17 Multidimensional Newton Method
  • L-18 Review of Chapters 0,1, and 2.
  • L-19 Exam I: v(a), +answers, v(b), +answers, v(c), +answers.

    3. Interpolation and Curve Fitting

  • L-20 Lagrange and Neville interpolation
  • L-21 Divided Differences
  • L-22 Least Squares Approximation
  • L-23 Conditioning and Errors

    4. Approximation of Functions

  • L-24 Chebyshev polynomials
  • L-25 Padé approximations

    5. Numerical Differentiation and Numerical Integration

  • L-26 Interpolation for Derivatives and Integrals
  • L-27 Extrapolation and Newton-Cotes integration formulas
  • L-28 Composite Rules and Romberg Integration
  • L-29 Gaussian Quadrature
  • L-30 The Fast Fourier Transform
  • L-31 Errors
  • L-32 Review for Exam II with answers
  • L-33 Exam II: v(a), +answers, v(b), +answers, v(c), +answers.

    6. Numerical Solution of ODEs

  • L-34 Taylor Series and Euler Methods
  • L-35 Runge Kutta and Multistep Methods
  • L-36 predictor-corrector methods
  • L-37 Higher order equations; Stability and Convergence

    7. Boundary-Value Problems

  • L-38 The shooting method
  • L-39 Finite Differences
  • L-40 Characteristic Value Problems

    Review

  • L-41 Review of Chapters 0, 1, and 2
  • L-42 Review of Chapters 3, 4, and 5
  • L-43 Review of Chapters 6 and 7