MA4G7 Computational Linear Algebra and Optimisation
Not Running in 2019/20
Status for Mathematics students: List C for MMath. Also listed under Scientific Comupting as CY902
Commitment: 3 one hour lectures per week (one of which will be in the computing lab)
Assessment: 2 hour exam (70%), assignments (30%)
Prerequisites: A good knowledge of a scientific programming language such as C or Fortran is essential. No scripting languages such as matlab or python are permitted. Knowledge of both linear algebra and vector calculus is essential
Leads To:
Content: See module page on CSC site.
Books:
Lloyd Trefethen and David Bau, Numerical Linear Algebra, SIAM, 1997
J. Nocedal and S. Wright, Numerical Optimization, Springer Verlag 1999