Last update: Aug 29, 2017 Textbook: Burden, Faires and Burden: Numerical Analysis, 10th edition. Office hour: By appointment (General III building Office 721, ext 62231). Grading: quiz+homework (40%, mostly on quiz), midterm 1, 2, (around 20% each) and final (around 20%). Course contents: Chap 00: Programming Language Tutorial: Matlab and Octave. Chap 01: Mathematical Preliminaries and Error Analysis: 1.2-1.3 (15+9). Chap 02: Solutions of Equations in One Variable: 2.1-2.5 (7+11+12+8+5). Chap 03: Interpolation and Polynomial Approximation 3.1, 3.5 (11+20), Chap 04: Numerical differentiation and integration: 4.1-4.4, 4.7, 4.9 (11+8+11+9+7+6). Chap 06: Direct Methods for Solving Linear Systems: 6.1-6.2, 6.5-6.6(14+9+11+17) (14+10+10+17) Chap 07: Iterative Techniques in Matrix Algebra: 7.3-7.5 (14+7+11). Chap 08: Approximation Theory: 8.1 (11). Chap 10: Numerical Solutions of Nonlinear Systems of Equations: 10.1-10.2(9+8).