MTH 522: Numerical Analysis (4)
Pre-requisites: MTH 303 Real Analysis I
Round off errors and computer arithmetic
Interpolation: Lagrange interpolation, divided differences, Hermite interpolation, splines, numerical differentiation, Richardson extrapolation
Numerical Integration: trapezoidal, Simpsons, Newton-Cotes, Gauss quadrature, Romberg integration, multiple integrals
Solution of linear algebraic equations: direct methods, Gauss elimination, pivoting, matrix factorizations
Iterative methods: matrix norms, Jacobi and Gauss-Siedel methods, relaxation methods
Computation of eigenvalues and eigenvectors: power method, householders method, QR algorithm
Numerical solutions of non-linear algebraic equations: bisection, secan and Newton's, zeroes of polynomials
Suggested Books:
- R. L. Burden, D. J. Faires, Numerical Analysis
- E. K. Blum, Numerical Analysis and Computation, Theory and Practice, Dover, 2010
- S. D. Conte, C. De Boor, Elementary Numerical Analysis,third edition, McGraw-Hill, 1980
- D. M. Young, R. T. Gregory, A Survey of Numerical Mathematics, volumes 1 and 2, Dover, 1988
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