Course Materials for Scientific Computing

These materials are for the course "Scientific Computing" taught by Anne Greenbaum in the spring term of 1997 at the Courant Institute.

Syllabus: postscript format, or LaTeX

Course notes

Notes for the first lecture(s) are from Jonathan Goodman , who taught this course in the spring term of 1996, and from Michael Overton. Notes on iterative methods from Anne Greenbaum.

Sources of Error: postscript format, or LaTeX
IEEE Arithmetic: postscript format, or LaTeX
More on IEEE Arithmetic: postscript only
Basic Numerical Analysis: postscript format, or LaTeX
Software: postscript format, or LaTeX
Iterative Methods: postscript format, or LaTeX

Assignments and handouts.

First homework assignment: postscript format, or LaTeX

Second homework assignment: postscript format, or LaTeX

Third homework assignment: postscript format, or LaTeX

Fourth homework assignment: postscript format, or LaTeX

Fifth homework assignment: postscript format, or LaTeX

Sixth homework assignment: postscript format, or LaTeX

Sample codes.

Sample MATLAB code for trapezoidal rule : trap.m
Sample MATLAB code for Simpson's rule : simp.m
MATLAB code that tests trap.m and simp.m : testint.m
MATLAB code that does Romberg integration using trap.m : romberg.m