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Numerical Analysis I

Lecturer: Dr M.R. O'Donohoe (mro2@cam.ac.uk)

No. of lectures: 8

This course is a prerequisite for Numerical Analysis II (Part II and Diploma).


Aims


The aims of this course are to provide introductions to floating-point arithmetic, numerical analysis and numerical software. Current implementations of floating-point arithmetic will be described. The basic principles of good numerical techniques will be illustrated by examples, but it will be shown that the design of a numerical algorithm is not necessarily straightforward, even for simple problems. The emphasis of the course will be on principles and practicalities rather than mathematical analysis.


Lectures

Objectives


At the end of the course students should

Recommended books


Conte, S.D. & Boor, C. de (1980). Elementary Numerical Analysis. McGraw-Hill.
Shampine, L.F., Allen, R.C. Jr & Pruess, S. (1997). Fundamentals of Numerical Computing. Wiley.



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