Instructor: Jeffrey Connors
E-mail: jeffrey.connors@uconn.edu
Office: MONT 113
Office hours: MONT 230 , T/Th 1-2 PM or by appointment. Usually I will be around earlier on T,Th as well.
Class time and room: T,Th 2:00 - 3:15 PM in MONT 113.
Text:
Introduction to Numerical Analysis by J. Stoer and R. Bulirsch.
FULL SYLLABUS HERE
Topics:
This course essentially covers Chapters 1-4 in the text with some supplementary material.
Round-off and error analysis - Sect. 1.1-1.3
Methods for interpolation and error analysis - Ch. 2
Numerical integration: Newton-Cotes method, Peano's error representation, Gaussian integration - Sect. 3.1, 3.2, 3.6.
Systems of linear equations; matrix factorizations, solution methods, error analysis, data fitting - Sect. 4.1-4.8.
Grading: The grade is 60% of the homework score, then 10% of the two
midterm exams and 20% of the final exam score.