CSE 541 Numerical Methods

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CSE 541Numerical Methods

• Naeem Shareef
• The Ohio State University
• This course closely follows the format
  established by Roger Crawfis

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Course Related Material

• 30
• 25
• 20
• 25

• Grading
• Lab assignments
• Midterm
• Homeworks Quizzes
• Final
• Check the course web page regularly for updates
• Working knowledge of C/C is a prerequisite for
  this course

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Course Topics

• Mathematical and Programming Preliminaries
• Computer representation of real numbers
• Function
• Evaluation
• Root Finding
• Differentiation
• Integral
• Approximation via interpolation
• Randomized Techniques (Monte Carlo)
• Solving linear systems

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Course Topics

• Emphasis
• Motivation and understanding of algorithms for
  numerical operations (this is a CSE course!)
• But we have to understand the math first
• Error determination and control

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Helpful Tools

• xxgdb a graphical debugger
• gnuplot a curve plotting package
• gprof a code profiling (timing) util.
• Matlab a system for performing many numerical
  tasks.
• Maple a system for performing many analytical
  tasks.
• Windows calculator, Excel, or any scientific
  calculator