E. Arthur Robinson, Jr., Professor of Mathematics
Department of Mathematics
Funger 428Q
2201 G St. NW
Washington DC 20052

(202) 994-6237
robinson@gwu.edu

http://home.gwu.edu/~robinson

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The official course  Syllabus.

Resources in Computational Mathematics:

Bibliography: Books and articles on computational mathematics and related topics.

Web Links: This is a long list of links relevant to computational mathematics including links to various software, other similar courses, connections with other disciplines.

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Lectures and Labs:

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• Lecture: Introduction. (11/17/2001)
• Lab1: Basic Unix and HTML. Setting up a web site. See also my Unix/HTMLSurvival Guide. (Due 1/24/2001)

 
• Lecture2: Remarks on computational mathematics. (1/22/2001)
• Lab 2 (1/24/2001: Due 1/31/2001 )
• Mathematical Modeling (PDF)
• Introduction to MATLAB (HTML)
• The singular value decomposition (PDF)
• LaTeX source file for "The singular value decomposition" (ASCII text)
• Lecture 3: Round off errors in numerical calculations. Methods of quadrature: Trapezoid rule and simpson's rule (1/29/2001)
• Lab 3:  Programming MATLAB and implementing quadratures. (HTML: 1/31/2001: Due 2/7/2001)
• Lecture 4: Floating point arithmetic. (HTML: 2/5/2001)
• Lab 4: Introduction to Maple. (MWS: 2/7/2001: Due 2/14/2001)
• Lecture 5: Computer Algebra Systems. (HTML: 2/12/01). See also the links page.
• Lab 5: More on Maple.  (MWS: 2/12/01, 2/14/01: Due 3/12/01)
• Lecture 6: An introduction to TeX and LaTeX (2/26/01).
• Lab 6: Working with LaTeX (2/28/01: Due 3/12/01).
• Flash! (3/12/01) LaTeX in the Lab is now working! Here is some practical advice.
• Lecture 7: A comparison of computing environments (3/5/01)
• Lab 7: Performance Comparisons (3/7/01: Due 3/16/01) New 4/4/01 Hint!
• Project 1: Installing and using new software (Due 3/26/01)
• Lecture 8: Elements of Data Structures and Algorithms (3/12/01)
• Lab 8: Experimenting with sorting algorithms (3/14/01: Due 4/2/01)
• Lecture 9: Fourier transforms, the DFT and the FFT (3/28/01)
• Lab 9: The FFT (4/2/01: Due 4/16/01 (Do one of Lab 8 or 9)) Reference: Press, Teukolski, Vetterling & Flannery Numerical Recipes in C (Section 12.2)
• Lab 10: The wavelet transform (4/4/01: Due 4/16/01(Do one of Lab 8 or 9)) Reference: Press, Teukolski, Vetterling & Flannery Numerical Recipes in C (Section 13.10)
• Project topic ideas
• Lecture/Lab 11: Fractals (4/11/01, Please try these out, but I'm not collecting anything).

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