| Lecture Number | Date | Material | Assignment |
| 1 | Thur Jan 11 |
1.2 Roundoff Error and Computer Arithmetic (Details) Everything about Computer Arithmetic (ps) Computer Arithmetic Tragedies | Class Syllabus (Postcript) (PDF) |
| 2 | Tues Jan 16 | 1.3 Algorithms and Convergence (Details) Condition and Stability Handout (Postcript) (PDF) | HW #1 Project Information |
| 3 | Thur Jan 18 | 6.1 Linear Systems of Equations (Details) | |
| 4 | Tues Jan 23 | 6.1 (continued) | HW #2 HW #1 Due Numerical Analysis Haiku Project |
| 5 | Thur Jan 25 | 6.2 Pivoting Strategies (Details) | Interactive GE with Pivoting (Matlab File 1) (Matlab File 2) |
| 6 | Tues Jan 30 | 6.5 Matrix Factorization (Details) | HW #3 HW #2 Due |
| 7 | Thur Feb 1 | 6.6 Special Types of Matrices (Details) | |
| 8 | Tues Feb 6 | 7.1 Norms of Vectors and Matrices (Details) 7.4 Condition Number | HW #4 HW #3 Due |
| 9 | Thur Feb 8 | Stability of GE, 7.3 Iterative Techniques (Details) | Test Problems for Projects (Postcript) (PDF) |
| 10 | Tues Feb 13 | 7.3 Analysis of Iterative Techniques (Details) | HW #5 HW #4 Due |
| 11 | Thur Feb 15 | 7.4 Error Estimates and Iterative Refinement (Details) | Project #1 Due |
| 12 | Tues Feb 20 | 9.1 Linear Algebra and Eigenvalues (Details) | HW #6 HW #5 Due |
| 13 | Thur Feb 22 | 9.2 The Power Method (Details) | |
| 14 | Tues Feb 27 | 9.3 Householder's Method (Details) | HW #6 Due |
| 15 | Thur Mar 1 | Catchup/Review Day | |
| 16 | Tues Mar 6 | MIDTERM | |
| 17 | Thur Mar 8 | 2.1 The Bisection Method (Details) | Exam for Graduating Seniors HW #7 |
| 18 | Tues Mar 13 | 2.2 Fixed-Point Iteration (Details) | |
| 19 | Thur Mar 15 | 2.3 The Newton-Raphson Method (Details) | HW #8 HW #7 Due Midterm Exam Solutions (Postcript) (PDF) |
| 20 | Tues Mar 27 | 2.4 Error Analysis for Iterative Methods (Details) | |
| 21 | Thur Mar 29 | 2.4 (continued) | HW #9 HW #8 Due Project #2 Due |
| 22 | Tues Apr 3 | 2.5 Accelerating Convergence (Details) | |
| 23 | Thur Apr 5 | 2.6 Zeros of Polynomials and Muller's Method (Details) Information about polynomials (Postcript) (PDF) | HW #9 Due Bonus Homework Problems (Postcript) (PDF) |
| 24 | Tues Apr 10 | 10.1 Fixed Points for Functions of Several Variables (Details) | HW #10 Information about Brent's Algorithm (text) |
| 25 | Thur Apr 12 | 10.2 Newton's Method (Details) | |
| 26 | Tues Apr 17 | 10.3 Quasi-Newton Methods (Details) | HW #11 HW #10 Due
Project #3 Due |
| 27 | Thur Apr 19 | 10.4 Steepest Descent Techniques (Details) | |
| 28 | Tues Apr 24 | Review, Final Exam Info: (Postcript) (PDF) | HW #11 Due |
| 29 | Thur Apr 26 | Review | Bonus HW, Project #4 and Bonus Projects Due |
| Thur May 3 | FINAL EXAM 12:30-2:30 |