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There will be an archive of the daily class formats (worksheets) available in PDF on this page. The worksheets are intended as a guide to the course material as the class proceeds.

Class 1: Fri Sep 3 Machine Representation of Numbers
Class 2: Wed Sep 08 Machine Representation of Numbers (continued)
Class 3: Fri Sep 10 Floating Point Numbers and Round Off-Errors; Unavoidable Errors slides
Class 4: Mon Sep 13 Sequences, Order of Convergence and "big Oh" notation
Class 5: Wed Sep 15 Taylor Series Approximation and Order of Convergence for Functions
Class 6: Fri Sep 17 Taylor Series Approximation and Order of Convergence for Functions (continued)
Class 7: Mon Sep 20 Introduction to MATLAB; Interactive Matlab Slides
Class 8: Wed Sep 22 Programming in MATLAB
Class 9: Fri Sep 24 Programming in MATLAB, continued; Matlab Programming slides
Class 10: Mon Sep 27 In-Class Quiz; Matlab Programming continued
Class 11: Wed Sep 29 Rates of Convergence of Iterative Sequences
Class 12: Fri Oct 1 Introduction to Picard Iteration
Class 13: Mon Oct 4 Picard Iteration, continued
Class 14: Wed Oct 6 Introduction to Root Finding
Class 15: Fri Oct 8 Root Finding Continued
Class 16: Mon Oct 11 Analyzing Root-Finding Methods
Class 17: Wed Oct 13 EXAM 1 REVIEW
Class 18: Fri Oct 15 EXAM 1
Class 19: Mon Oct 18 Analyzing Root-Finding Methods
Class 20: Wed Oct 20 End of Root-Finding Method
Class 21: Mon Oct 25 Introduction to Nonlinear Systems of Equations
Class 22: Wed Oct 27 Nonlinear Systems of Equations, Continued
Class 23: Fri Oct 29 Nonlinear Systems of Equations (Practice)
Class 24: Mon Nov 1 Norms (taught by P. McGill)
Class 25: Wed Nov 3 Iterative Method for Solving Linear Systems
Class 26: Fri Nov 5 Blackwell-Tapia Lecture at UCLA
Class 27: Mon Nov 8 Iterative Method for Solving Linear Systems (continued)
Class 28: Wed Nov 10 Introduction to SOR
Class 29: Fri Nov 12 Introduction to Approximation Theory
Class 30: Mon Nov 15 Discrete Least Squares Approximation
Class 31: Wed Nov 17 Review for Exam 2
Class 32: Fri Nov 19 EXAM 2
Class 33: Mon Nov 22 Discrete Least Squares Approximation in Linear Algebra form
Class 34: Mon Nov 29 Using the QR Algorithm to solve the Least Squares Problem
Class 35: Wed Dec 1 Introduction to Interpolation
Class 36: Fri Dec 3 Polynomial Interpolation, Continued
Class 37: Mon Dec 6 Piecewise Polynomial Interpolation
Class 37: Wed Dec 8 Cubic Splines

Last Updated: December 03, 2004 by Ron Buckmire