Math 370 Numerical Analysis Spring 2009

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The following resources are taken liberally from Professor Gerry Recktenwald's list of resources for his ME 352 class at Portland State University
  1. Numerical Methods from Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. Netlib: Home of the best numerical software in the world
  3. Doug Arnold's Page on Disasters due to Numerical Errors
  4. Professor Gander's "Heisenberg Effect" in Computer Arithmet
  5. On-line MATLAB Tutorial from the Mathworks at www.mathworks.com
  6. Doug Hull's MATLAB videos
  7. The MATLAB FAQ
  8. Prof. Recktenwald's Study Guides and Overhead Transparencies for Lecture
  9. Prof. Mathews' Numerical Analysis page
  10. University of Colorado Matlab tutorial
  11. David Strong's visualization of iterative schemes applet at MathDL

 

Extra Credit Opportunities
Students who succesfully complete more than half of the Extra Credit Opportunities (ECOs) will have their final letter grade raised by one-third of a letter grade, i.e. from A- to A or from B to B+. This is the place where the official list of ECOs will be maintained.

An ECO write-up of a talk is due one-week after the event.
ECO 1:

Friday February 20th Eric Sundberg Talk on Ramsey Theory 12:30-1:25 Fowler 309
ECO 2:

Filling out the Mid-Term Assessment form completely (and anonymously), handed in by Friday March 6 at 5pm (attach to HW Set #2)
ECO 3:

Reprise of Exam #1 as a take-home to a 90% mastery of the content, due 5pm on Monday March 16.

ECO 4:

Friday March 6th Brian Fischer talk 12:30-1:30 in Fowler 309

ECO 5:

Senior Comps Talks: Every Thursday March 19th/March 26th/April 2nd in Fowler 302 7-9pm (Write-up about any two talks)
ECO 6:

Friday March 20th Richard Schwartz talk 12:30-1:30 Fowler 309
ECO 7:

Tuesday April 21st Math Mania Martes event at Luther Burbank Middle School
ECO 8:

DUE Mon Apr 27th: Second Midterm Assessment form
ECO 9:

Reprise of Exam #2 as a take-home to 90% mastery of the content, DUE Wednesday April 29th. If you already have a 90% on the Exam you automatically get credit for this ECO.