ASSIGNMENTS/HOMEWORK

1. hmwk1.ps, hmwk1.pdf due 02/08/08.
2. hmwk2.ps, hmwk2.pdf due 02/15/08.
3. hmwk3.ps, hmwk3.pdf due 02/22/08.
4. hmwk4.ps, hmwk4.pdf due 03/03/08.
5. hmwk5.ps, hmwk5.pdf due 03/14/08.
6. hmwk6.ps, hmwk6.pdf due 03/26/08.
7. hmwk7.ps, hmwk7.pdf due 04/02/08.
8. hmwk8.ps, hmwk8.pdf due 04/09/08.
9. hmwk9.ps, hmwk9.pdf due 04/18/08.
10. hmwk10.ps, hmwk10.pdf due 04/25/08.
11. hmwk11.ps, hmwk11.pdf due 05/02/08.
12. hmwk12.ps, hmwk12.pdf due 05/07/08.

RELATED READINGS FROM THE RECOMMENDED TEXTBOOK

• Sections 0.2 and 0.3.
• Sections 0.5 and 0.1.
• Sections 3.1, 3.2, and 3.3.
• Section 3.4.
• Sections 5.2 and 5.5.
• Sections 2.1, 2.2, and 2.4.
• Sections 0.4 and some of 1.3
• Section 2.3
• Section 2.5
• Sections 1.1, 1.2, 1.4, 1.5
• Subsections 13.1.1, 13.2.1, 13.2.2
• Sections 6.1, 6.2, 6.4

GENERAL INFORMATION

• Syllabus.
• Course pack: My class notes are available as a course pack at the IMU bookstore for $14.25.
• ICON.
• Textbook complement: Numerical Analysis by Timothy Sauer, Addison Wesley, 2006, 688 pages, ISBN-10: 0321268989, ISBN-13: 9780321268983, list price: $124.00. Table of Contents, Corrected pages, Companion Website. This book is intended to be a complement giving a different view of the fundamentals of numerical analysis.
• The book on amazon.com.
• An online resource on numerical methods which can be useful to engineers.
• A lot of useful information (especially the lectures section) and some GUIs from Ken Atkinson.
• Help Page for the Division of Mathematical Sciences and Getting Started in the Division of Mathematical Sciences You can find some information about Unix there.
• Mathtools.net: a technical computing portal for scientific and engineering needs.
• A definition of numerical analysis (ps) as discussed by L. N. Trefethen.
• An Overview of Numerical Analysis (pdf) as discussed by Kendall Atkinson.

MATLAB

• Free electronic textbook Numerical Computing with MATLAB by Cleve Moler himself!, the founder of Matlab.
• Matlab Help is available directly from the Help menu of the Matlab window.
• A Very Elementary MATLAB Tutorial, MATLAB Tutorials from Other Universities, MATLAB & Simulink Tutorials, MATLAB Homework Helper, all presented by Mathworks, Inc., producers of Matlab.
• Crash Course in MATLAB by Tobin Driscoll, University of Delaware.
• Some Matlab tutorials from Edward Neuman
• Matlab tutorial - University of New Hampshire
• Matlab tutorial - University of British Columbia
• Matlab tutorial - University of Florida
• MATLAB Online Reference Documentation provides direct hypertext links to specific MATLAB function descriptions (from the Math Dept, University of Florida).
• Matlab Primer (ps) (for an earlier version of Matlab)
• Matlab 5 introduction (ps, see also html)
• Matlab Guide by D. J. Higham and N. J. Higham, SIAM, Philadelphia, 2005 (ENGINEERING QA297 .H5217 2005)
• Introduction to Engineering Programming: in C, MATLAB and JAVA by Mark A. Austin.
• Matlab for first order ODEs
• Matlab for higher order ODEs and systems of ODEs
• Matlab for PDEs

FORTRAN

• Type "man f90" on Unix workstations for information on how to compile
• A list of Fortran tutorials, Fortran 90 for the Fortran 77 programmer, Fortran 90 for Fortran 77 programmers.

LINUX COMPUTER ACCOUNTS

• Linux computer accounts will be made available on the Linux network in MLH (computer lab rooms B5 and 301). You can also use the NoMachine NX Client Windows software to access your Linux computer account remotely using the address linux.divms.uiowa.edu.
• Selected Unix commands.
• Class directory: /group/class/m072ljay. Group you belong to: m072ljay.
• If you do not know your password go to 303A MLH.
• Accounts for students who are not majors within the Division of Mathematical Sciences will be deleted after the term has ended! Note the expiration date at the top of your Unix Account Information form.
• The directory for this class will be removed before the beginning of the next term! If there is anything in this directory that you would like to save, you must archive it to your own home directory.

GRADER

• Qiwei Sheng, 255 MH, 335-0654, e-mail: qsheng@math.uiowa.edu.

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