Math 502 – Numerical Analysis I


Welcome to Math502!


Course Information 

 Instructor:

 Yan, Jue

 Office:

 Carver Hall 484

 Class location:

 MWF 10:00 -10:50AM Carver Hall 0128

 E-mail:

 jyan@iastate.edu

 Office Number:

 294-8166

 


 

Textbook: Numerical Mathematics, by Hammerlin and Hoffmann.

 

Outline of Lectures:

Chapter 1 – Computing.

Chapter 4 – Approximation.

Chapter 5 – Interpolation.

Chapter 6 – Splines.

Chapter 7 – Integration.

            Extra – Numerical ODE

 

Home works and Exams:

           

Totally we will have ten assignments. Assignments

We will have one in-class midterm exam and one in-class final exam. No make-up exams.

If you have to miss an exam due to an emergency, please contact me within 48 hours. 


Tentative Lectures Schedules:

 

Time Table

Covers

Week 1

Floating point arithmetic and error analysis

Week 2

Preliminaries on linear functional space

Week 3

Weierstrass approximation theorems

Week 4

General approximation and uniform approximation

Week 5

Least square methods

Week 6

Interpolation methods and remainders

Week 7

Equidistant interpolation points and numerical differentiaion

Week 8

Convergence of interpolation polynomials

Week 9

Polynomial splines

Week 10

Interpolation splines

Week 11

B-splines

Week 12

Basic quadrature rules

Week 13

Error analysis and extrapolation

Week 14

Gauss quadrature and multidimensional integration

Week 15

Numerical methods for solving ordinary differential equations


Last modified: Thursday, August 14, 2008