Math 464A, Numerical Analysis, Fall, 2013

This is the Math 464A homepage. Consult it from time to time to find useful information for the course. I will include links to the syllabus and other course information.

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Here is a copy of current course information.

• (12/6/13) I will have an office hour 10:30-11:30 Tuesday, December 10.
• (12/3/13) Sample problems for the final.
• (11/22/13) Some of you have asked about other numerical analysis books. Elementary Numerical Analysis by Conte and DeBoor is a good book. It's on course reserve.
• (10/20/13) Sample problems for the midterm.
• (10/7/13) Two documents on norms. norms and norms2
• (9/27/13) Scanned images of homework from section 2.1 and section 2.2
• (9/26/13) Some of you do not yet have a copy of the text. Here is Scan of the first few pages.
• (9/19/13) Notes on Singular Value Decomposition.
• (9/19/13) Carl DeBoor on divided differences.
• (9/19/13) Class email address is math464a_au13@uw.edu
• (9/19/13) Least squares applied to polynomial approximation.
• (9/19/13) A discussion of Cauchy sequences can be found in Taylor's book or Folland's book; and also on page 197 of Johnson and Riess. There is a discussion of Newton's method in several variables and Cauchy sequences on pages 194-198 of Johnson and Riess. There will be no problems involving Cauchy sequences on the midterm.
• (9/19/13) Wikipedia has an entry on Taylor's theorem, with a statement and proof of the several variable case. It is also stated and proved in most books on advanced calculus such as the books by Gerald Folland and Angus Taylor (not Brook Taylor, for whom the theorem is named). These books are both titled Advanced Calculus.
• (9/19/13) A proof of the formula for a sum of powers is in Bernoulli Numbers and the Riemann Zeta Function by B. Sury.
• (9/19/13) What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic
• (9/19/13) A quote from Richard Hamming: "The purpose of numerical analysis is insight, not numbers."
• (9/19/13) SAGE website.
• (9/13/13) If you go to http://depts.washington.edu/aslab/ and click on the link "terminal server" you will find instructions for how to use the Arts and Sciences computers remotely.
• (9/19/13) The College of Arts & Sciences Instructional Computing Lab is located in rooms B022 and B027 of the Communications Building and is open to all UW students. Room B022 is a drop-in lab containing 27 Windows XP systems. Room B027 is a classroom lab containing 28 Windows XP systems, a PC-attached projector, and an overhead projector. The lab also offers remote access for UW students and staff via a terminal server.
• (9/19/13) Syllabus