Fall 2005

MATH 226: Introduction to Numerical Mathematics
Floating point numbers, floating point arithmetic and associated errors. Numerical solution of linear and nonlinear equations, interpolation and polynomial approximation - least squares curve fitting. Numerical integration and differentiation. Numerical solution of differential equations.
Some relevant links:
Floating point operations (from the Princeton Introduction to CS course).
Some disasters attributable to bad numerical computing (D. Arnold's page, UMN).

MATH 198: Methods of Ordinary Differential Equations