Numerical Analysis I, MTH 451
David Seal's website.
Michigan State University's Math Department website.
Contact Information:
Office: C330 Wells Hall
Voice: (517) 884-1456
Emal: seal AT math DOT msu DOT edu.
Office Hours: Wednesday 10:00--11:00, Friday 3:00--4:00, and as always, by appointment.
If you'd like to make an appointment with me, please first take a look at my
calendar to
make sure I'm free.
Course Description and syllabus
The course meeting times and locations are as follows:
- Days: Monday, Wednesday, Friday.
- Time: 09:10AM--10:00AM,
- Location: Wells Hall C304 (UPDATED!).
The course syllabus has all the additional
information required for this course.
MATLAB Help
Most of the supplied documents for this course will be written for
the MATrix LABoratory (MATLAB) program.
This is the language of choice if you have little to no experience
programming.
- Download guide to MATLAB plotting [MSCC, University of Washington,
1996]:
(PDF)
- Download MATLAB tutorial: (PDF)
(Courtesy of Prof. James Rossmanith)
- Go to the MATLAB
Help Desk at the MathWorks site.
This allows you to search for a specific MATLAB function.
Note: you can always type "help func_name" to find a detailed description of
that function.
Python Help
For those of you who are interested, I will provide a few Python
scripts.
If you would like to work in an open-source programming language and have
experience programming, this is the language of choice to get up and running
very quickly with builtin plotting routines.
Homework
Follow links in the table below to obtain a copy of the homework in
Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format.
- Homework #6 (PDF)
- Homework #5 (PDF)
- Homework #4 (PDF)
- Homework #3 (PDF)
- Homework #2 (PDF)
- Homework #1 (PDF)
News Information and Handouts:
Description of final project
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