478/578 Numerical Methods for Differential Equations/Computational Mathematics II

Spring 2007

Instructor: Greg Fasshauer

Class-related Information

Syllabi: 478 578

Homework Assignments: 478 578

Handouts or Worksheets

Practice Test

Solutions to Tests: 478 578

Additional Sources of Information

• (Numerical) Mathematics
  • Numerical Analysis in the Midwest
  • Netlib, a collection of mathematical software, papers, and databases
  • Guide to Available Mathematical Software
  • Numerical Recipes, a series of books with code for Numerical Methods
  • "The definition of numerical analysis," (gzipped Postscript file) by L. N. Trefethen (Oxford University), appeared in SIAM News, Nov. 1992, reprinted in Bulletin of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, March/April, 1993. See also Appendix of our textbook.
  • Understanding Mathematics: A Study Guide by Peter Alfeld (University of Utah)
  
  
• Matlab
  • Matlab Tutorials (includes .pdf and zipped .m files) (by Ed Neuman)
  • Crash course in MATLAB (Version 7) (pdf) (by Toby Driscoll)
  • A Practical Introduction to Matlab (Version 5) (html version) (by Mark Gockenbach) or Postscript version
  • Official Matlab Site
  • Octave, an inexpensive (FREE) alternative to Matlab
  • Matlab Tutorial (University of Florida)
  • Introduction to Matlab (Boston University)
  
  
• Maple (and alternatives)
  • Official Maple Site
  • MuPad, an inexpensive (FREE) alternative to Maple
  • A brief guide to Maple (Introductory chapter of Maple Calculus book by James A. Carlson and Jennifer M. Johnson, University of Utah)
  • Alexander Walz's Maple page (in German & English)
  • A List of Maple sites from MIT