Lecture Plan

Note! This will most likely be changed during the semester.

Week Date Subject Reference Additional Material Recommended Exercises Lecturer
2 10.01 Introduction to the course, principles of computational mathematics, learning outcome of the course pendel.ipynb slides om praktisk info Brynjulf Owren
11.01 Floating point numbers, roundoff error, stability of problems and algorithms. Bisection method and Newton method float_BO float bisection.ipynb Brynjulf Owren
3 17.01 Contraction mapping Theorem. Convergence of fixed point iterations 4.1-4.2 Nonlinear systems Brynjulf Owren
18.01 Newton method for systems, quadratic convergence. Brouwer's Theorem. 4.3-4.5 newton.ipynb Brynjulf Owren
4 24.01 Linear algebra, iterative methods 2.7 sauer-2.5.pdf Brynjulf Owren
25.01 Solution of systems of linear equations with iterative methods Sauer 2.5 liniter.ipynb Brynjulf Owren
5 31.01 Least squares, condition numbers 2.7 hilbert_test.ipynb Brynjulf Owren
01.02 Stability of linear systems, SVD 2.7-2.9 leastsquare.ipynb Brynjulf Owren
6 07.02 Computing SVD. Householder transformations, computing QR 5.5, 5.7 Sondre Galtung
08.02 Gaussian Elimination with pivoting 2.4 gaussian_elimination.ipynb Sondre Galtung
7 14.02 Polynomial interpolation 6.1-6.2 Sondre Galtung
15.02 Polynomial interpolation 6.2-6.3 Runge phenomenon animation
For the Newton form of the interpolation polynomial and divided differences see Problem 2 in this note
Sondre Galtung
8 21.02 Polynomial approximation 6.4, 8.1-8.3 Sondre Galtung
22.02 Polynomial approximation 8.3-8.5 Sondre Galtung
9 28.02 Numerical integration 7.1-7.3 Brynjulf Owren
29.02 Numerical integration 7.5-7.7 Brynjulf Owren
10 06.03 Numerical integration 9.1, 9.2, 9.4 Brynjulf Owren
07.03 Numerical integration 10.1-10.5 gausscomposite.ipynb Brynjulf Owren
11 14.03 Initial value problems for ODEs notater_ode.pdf (Norwegian, lectured material) and note.pdf (English) Brynjulf Owren
15.03 Initial value problems for ODEs Brynjulf Owren
12 20.03 Initial value problems for ODEs Example of (in)stability (Prothero–Robinson) proth-rob.ipynb Sondre Galtung
21.03 Initial value problems for ODEs Sondre Galtung
13 27.03 Easter - No lectures
28.03
14 03.04 Difference approximations For these two weeks (14-15), most of the material is found in compact form here: masterbvp.pdf Brynjulf Owren
04.04 Boundary value problems Brynjulf Owren
15 10.04 Boundary value problems Sondre Galtung
11.04 Boundary value problems Sondre Galtung
16 17.04 Old exam problems Selected exam tasks Abdullah Abdulhaque
18.04 No lecture
2024-04-24, Brynjulf Rustad Owren