Math/CS 571: Numerical Mathematics I (Fall 2012)
 
Course Info: (syllabus)

 

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Prerequisite: Calculus, linear algebra, some programming experience in FORTRAN, C, Matlab or a similar language.
 
Text:
  Numerical Linear algebra, by L.N. Trefethen and D. Bau, SIAM 1997
(referred by TB)

Other reference : Fundamentals of Matrix Computations, by D.S. Watkins, Wiley-Interscience, 2010.

Instructor: Dr. Yulong Xing                          Email: xingy (at) math.utk.edu
                Office: 214 Ayres Hall                 Office Hours: 10:30-11:20pm T, TH              
                Office Tel: (865) 974-4314

Class Meeting Times:  T, Th 12:40 - 1:55 PM,  Ayres Hall 111

Announcement

Week

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01, Aug. 19.


 


First class

Lecture 1 of TB, Matrix-Vector multiplication


02, Aug. 26.


Lecture 2 of TB, Orthogonal vectors and matrices.

HW1


Lecture 3 of TB, Norms.


03, Sep. 02.

 

Lecture 3 and 4, norms, SVD

HW2


Lecture 4 and 5, SVD


04, Sep. 09.


Lecture 6, projector

HW3

Quiz 1


Lecture 6 and 7, QR algorithm


05, Sep. 16.


Lecture 7 and 8, QR and Gram-Schmidt orthogonalization

HW4


Lecture 8, Gram-Schmidt orthogonalization


06, Sep. 23.


Lecture 10, Househoulder triangulation

HW5

Prog. assignment 1


Lecture 10 and 11, Househoulder and least square problem


07, Sep. 30.


Lecture 11, Least square problem

HW6

Quiz2


Lecture 12, Condition number


08, Oct. 07.


Midterm


Fall break


09, Oct. 14.


Lecture 12 and 13, Condition number and floating point arithmetic

HW7


Lecture 13 and 14, Stability


10, Oct. 21.


Lecture 16,17,18,19, Stability

HW8


Lecture 20, Gaussian elimination  

11, Oct. 28.

 

Lecture 21, 23, Pivoting and Cholesky factorization

HW9

  Lecture 22 Stability of LU, Iterative methods  

12, Nov. 04.


Jacobi, Gauss-Seidal, SOR methods and their convergence

HW10

Quiz3

Handout on iterative methods


Convergence, Descent method


13, Nov. 11.


Steepest descent method, CG method

HW11

Handout on descent and CGmethods


CG method, eigenvalue problems

Prog. assignment 2


14, Nov. 18.


Lecture 24, 25, 26, 27 Eigenvalue problems

HW12


Thanksgiving holiday


15, Nov. 25.


Lecture 27, 28, 29 Rayleigh quotient, power, inverse iteration, QR algorithm


Nonlinear problem

HW13

Quiz4


16, Dec. 02.


Last class

 

 


17, Dec. 09.


 


Final Exam