MTH/CSE 538. Numerical Analysis II. Spring 2026.


Sections:

Books:

Sergey Dyachenko
TR 12:30-1:50. Room: Math 205.
Syllabus for MTH/CSE 538
Timothy Sauer
Numerical Analysis
2nd Edition, Pearson.

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

Office hours:


Room: Math 312
W 2:00-3:00pm, and by appointment (sergeydy AT buffalo DOT edu).

Grades Assignment

HWs: 15%.
Project: 10%
Two Midterm exam: 25% points each.
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
3 HW1 Feb 20 Deferred correction method, Multistep methods, Stability, Order of multistep methods
1,2 Where to get Matlab?
Numerical solution of ODEs, Lipshitz continuity, forward and backward Euler method, trapezoidal rule, Runge-Kutta methods, order of accuracy