Numerical Analysis/Scientific Computing

Slides/notes and Jupyter notebook demos for an introductory course of numerical analysis, following the textbook Scientific Computing: An Introductory Survey by Michael T. Heath.

Developed over the years while teaching CS450 in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois. A number of the demos were based on material initially developed by Luke Olson.

• PDF of these slides/notes (see notes for source)

• Demos in Binder

• The demos use annotations for ipython-demo-tools. A #clear annotation at the beginning of a code cell allows the clear-marked-inputs subcommand of prepare-ipynb to remove the content of those input cells, maybe to use them for live coding in class. The #clear marks themselves can be removed by that remove-marks subcommand.

• The notes are written in Org mode, which serves as a lightweight markup language over LaTeX. They're easiest to edit in Emacs, but vim-orgmode will do as well.

  To build the notes, you need any recent version of Emacs installed. Also make sure that submodules cloned properly:

  git submodule update --init
  

  Then simply change to the notes subdirectory and say:

  ./make.sh
  

  The script will optionally make use of latexrun. If you get

  There were errors; output not updated
  

  on the first go, simply rerun make.sh.

• make.sh will generate two PDFs: notes.pdf and notes-folded.pdf. They differ in whether the boxes present in the notes (containing many of the most salient mathematical developments) are filled in or not.

  I use the un-filled version for class and fill in the boxes by hand during class using Xournal++ (but equivalent notetaking applications should work just as well).

Problems and Assignments

If you can demonstrate that you are teaching a related course at a college or university anywhere in the world, I have homework assignments and projects (some of which are autograded using the RELATE system) that I would be happy to share with you.

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