Numerical Methods I

Spring Semester 2001           Eric Olson
TR 11:00-12:15pm               784-6609
632 Ansari Business Bldg       ejolson@unr.edu

The development of computers in the late 1940's and their great advances in power over the last fifty years has lead to a revolution in the field of numerical analysis. New procedures have been and are being developed which allow problems to be solved which could not have been contemplated even as a life's work a few decades ago.

The goal of this course is to provide the student with the numerical tools and methodology necessary to treat their own problems. We will cover error analysis, solutions of linear systems, solutions of nonlinear equations, spline functions and polynomial interpolation, numerical integration and differentiation, and the numerical solution of ordinary differential equations.

Texts:

1. Donald Greenspan and Vincenzo Casulli, Numerical Analysis for Applied Mathematics, Science, and Engineering, 1988, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company.

2. Hosking, Joe, Joyce and Turner, First Steps in Numerical Analysis, 2nd Edition, 1996, Arnold.

Prerequisites: Math 330 Linear Algebra and a knowledge of computer programming in FORTRAN, C or Pascal.