MTH 537. Numerical Analysis I. Fall 2024.


Sections:

Books:

TR 2:00-3:20. Room: Math 122.
Syllabus for MTH 537
Timothy Sauer
Numerical Analysis
2nd Edition, Pearson.

Additional lectures (by courtesy of Prof. S. Lau (UNM)).

Office hours:


Room: Math 312
Th 4:00-5:00 and by appointment (sergeydy AT buffalo DOT edu).

Grades Assignment

HWs: 25% .
Midterm exam I: 25% points.
Midterm exam II: 25% points.
Final exam: 25% points.
Grading cut-offs: A = 90-100%, B = 80-90%, C = 70-80%, D = 60-70%.

Homework regulations

HW has to be typed in what ever editor you like.
If you were asked to produce any output from Matlab - it has to be copied in the HW text.
If you were asked to prepare a script and use it, every Matlab script has to be printed.
If you were asked to plot something, this plot has to be printed.

Week # Homework problems Due date Material
15-16 Additional Review for Exam 3 Forward and Backward Euler Methods, Runge-Kutta, Finite Difference Methods
13-14 Homework 06 Due date: November 26 Numerical Integration
11 Review for Exam 2 Rootfinding for systems, Numerical Integration
10 Least-Squares Problem: Normal equations and QR-factorization
10 Homework 05 extended to November 14, end of the day TS 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, Chebyshev Interpolation, Cubic Splines, eval_pwpoly, pwchermite_coeffs.m
9
7,8 Homework 03 October 17
TS 2.5, 3.2, Newton's divided differences and Lagrange interpolation
6 Exam Review TS 2.3, TS 2.4, GE.m (Gauss Elimination without pivoting)
5 TS 2.1, LTriSol.m, UTriSol.m, LBiDiSol.m, UBiDiSol.m
4 TS 1.4, 1.5
3 Homework 02 September 24th, end of day.
TS 1.1, 1.2, bisection.m
2 TS 0.2, 0.3, 0.4
1 Homework 01 Tuesday, September 10, end of day.
TS 0.1, Where to get Matlab? explot.m sauerp17.m nest.m