Professor: Jianliang Qian

Office: C306 Wells Hall
Phone: (517)353-6334
Email: qian@math.msu.edu

Lectures: MWF 15:00-15:50
Location: 1230 Engineering Building
Office Hours: MW4-5pm, F1-2pm, and by appointment
Teaching Assistant: Jian Song; office: C106 Wells Hall
Course Website: http://www.math.msu.edu/~qian/850.17f/index850.html

Description and Contents
Numerical Analysis I/Numerical Linear Algebra is mainly about numerical linear algebra which is the foundation for computational mathematics and scientific computing. The following topics are intended to be covered (tentatively):

• Triangulation and Schur complement;
• Least squares and linear systems;
• Eigenvalue problems;
• Iterative methods.

Required Textbook

• N. Trefethen and D. Bau, III, Numerical Linear Algebra, SIAM, 1997.

Recommended Textbook

• G. Golub and C. Van Loan, Matrix Computation, Johns Hopkins U. Press, 1996.

Homework and Projects

• This will be a computationally intensive course, including programming and written assignments.
• The computational problems will utilize MATLAB, but other languages (Fortran, C, C++, etc) are acceptable as well.
• Homework due in class. No late homework accepted.

Exams

• Final Project: TBA
• Final Exam: Monday, Dec 11 2017 3:00pm - 5:00pm in 1230 Engineering Building.

Grading based on

• Class participation (10%), assignments (50%), Final Project (20%), Final Exam (20%).
  
• 4.0: 90% - 100%; 3.5: 80% - 89%; 3.0: 70% - 79%; 2.5: 60% - 69%; 2.0: less than 60%.

Assignment

Homework Assignment 1: PDF file. As indicated