Lecturer: Radu Cimpeanu

Slack channel: http://mathsyscdt.slack.com (for questions, links and miscellaneous communications)

MS Teams group:

MA934 is five weeks long and runs from week 1 to week 5 (inclusive) of the Autumn term.

Assessment:

Oral viva examination (40%)

Written class test (40%)

Coursework (20%)

Notes:

There are some prepared notes for this module but probably not for all of it. I'll post what I have here. Please let me know about any errors or typos which you find.

• Notes 1 : Finite precision arithmetic, algorithms and computational complexity
• Notes 2 : Recursive functions and data structures
• Notes 3 : Interpolation, numerical derivatives and numerical integration
• Notes 4 : Root finding and optimisation
  Some additional notes explaining the Golden Section Search properly: https://github.com/colm-connaughton/MA934-gss
• Notes 5 : Numerical linear algebra
• Notes 6 : Integration of differential equations
• Notes 7 : Dynamic programming and Dijkstra's algorithm
• Notes 8 : Fourier transforms
• Additional notes: https://github.com/MathSys-MA934/class-notes : Linear programming

Problem sheets:

• Jupyter notebooks containing the homework problems are available through github classroom accessible using the link provided in class.