COMPUTER-BASED
NUMERICAL METHODS
 
Course Syllabus
 
 - Series expansions: from
     calculus to computation
- Integrals as sums and
     derivatives as differences
- Interpolation, splines,
     and a second look at numerical calculus
- Numerical methods for ODE,
     initial-value problems
- Root finding, Newton's
     method, boundary-value problems
- Fourier transform, Fourier
     series, Shannon sampling theory
- Bandlimited interpolation,
     spectral methods
- Least-squares
     approximation
- Principal component
     analysis