
# Numerical analysis

## Announcements

2016-04-19
Please complete Homework 8 and submit on blackboard by 2016-04-25 at noon, but see the note about late submissions.
2016-04-12
Please complete Homework 7 and submit on blackboard by 2016-04-18 at noon.
2016-04-04
Please complete Homework 6 and submit on blackboard by 2016-04-11 at noon.
2016-03-28
Please complete Homework 5 and submit on blackboard by 2016-04-04 at noon.
2016-02-28
Please complete Homework 4 and submit on blackboard by 2016-02-29 at noon.
2016-02-17
Please complete Homework 3 and submit on blackboard by 2016-02-29 at noon.
2016-02-02
Please complete Homework 2 and submit on blackboard by 2016-02-15 at noon.
2016-01-20
Please complete Homework 1 and submit on blackboard by 2016-02-01 at noon.
2016-01-12
Please complete the intro survey and submit on blackboard by 2016-01-15 at 5pm.

## Overview

Numerical analysis is the study of computer-based numerical methods for working with common mathematical and scientific operations. The emphasis of the course is on numerical algorithms, represented as computer codes, their mathematical abstractions, represented as rigorously as possible, and the resulting approximation errors. This is a graduate class on these methods that would serve a fondation for students in computer science, mathematics, computational science and engineering, statistics, engineering, and releated fields that will use numerical algorithms and approximations in their work.

The topics we'll cover include:

• Computer-friendly representations of numbers including floating-point arithmetic
• Approximations to functions
• Numerical methods to differentiate and integrate functions
• Methods to solve non-linear equations (CS 51500 focuses on linear equations)
• Numerical solutions to ODEs

An undergraduate version of this course is available as CS314, and for students from disciplines other than CS and Mathematics, this might be more suitable depending on your previous knowledge of this material.