TMA4205 Numerical linear algebra, autumn 2025
The course description can be found here.
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| 13.12 | The grading of the exam is finished. Here is the exam with solution suggestion. The grading scheme can be found on blackboard. And then I wish you all quiet and relaxing holidays! |
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| 18.11 | The curriculum of the course is everything listed on the Lecture plan, in addition to the exercises. |
| 17.11 | Here is a list of key concepts (updated 18.11) |
| 17.11 | The schedule for the presentations will be announced when all the project works are handed in. |
| 13.11 | There will be a lecture tomorrow Friday November 14, 12:15-14:00 in Grønnbygget - MA24. Topic SVD |
| 13.11 | Ovsys is open. |
| 10.11 | The lecture tomorrow (Tuesday 11.11) is moved to Friday 12:15-14:00. |
| 27.09 | The project is now announced. |
| 04.09 | The second exercise is published, and so are solution suggestions for (most of) exercise 1. |
| 26.08 | The Tuesday lectures are moved from 10:15 to 8:15, same room as before. |
| 22.08 | The first exercise can be found on the exercise page. |
| 12.08 | If you want to follow the course, but there are time table conflicts with other courses you want to follow, please send me an email. |
| 28.07 | Welcome to TMA4205 Numerical linear algebra. The first lecture is Tuesday August 19. |
Lecturer
- Office:1348, Sentralbygg 2
Lectures
- Tuesday
10:15-12:0008:15-10:00. - Wednesday 08:15-10:00 NB! Changed from the official course description.
- Office hours: Tuesday 11:15-12:00.
All lectures are in room 656 Simastuen, SBII, except Wednesday August 20 where we will be in F3, Gamle fysikk.
Textbook
Main textbook:
- Y. Saad: Iterative Methods for Sparse Linear Systems. 2nd ed. SIAM, 2003. Available at SIAM.
Additional resources:
- L. N. Trefethen and D. Bau: Numerical Linear Algebra, SIAM, 1997.
- G. Golub and C. Van Loan: Matrix Computations. 3rd ed. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. Photocopies of the relevant chapters will be made available on Blackboard.
- W. L. Briggs, V. E. Henson, S. F. Mc Cormick: A multigrid tutorial, SIAM, 2000. Available online at SIAM.
- J. W. Demmel: Applied Numerical Linear Algebra, SIAM, 1997. Available online at SIAM.
Evaluation
The final grade is based on project work (30%) and a written exam (70%).
All partial evaluations must be passed in order to receive a grade in the course.
Permitted examination aids: Only the approved calculator.