Mathematics 784: Nonlinear Equations and Optimization
Spring term, 2009, 11:45--1:00 TH
Instructor: C. T. Kelley , 515-7163, Tim_Kelley@ncsu.edu
Office hours: HA 331, TBA

• House Rules , Postscript , pdf
  • General info
  • Syllabus
  • References
• Books: Available for FREE download from siam.org
  • Continuation notes
  • Iterative Methods for Linear and Nonlinear Equations
    errors in first printing -- fixed in second
    errors in second printing -- fixed in third
    errors in third printing -- to be fixed in fourth
  • Iterative Methods for Optimization
    errors in first printing -- fixed in second
    
• MATLAB codes:
  • Nonlinear Equations:
    • Use the New Codes not the
    • old ones .
  • Optimization: Menu

Homework Assignments

• HW-1, due Feb 26: LaTeX , PS, pdf
  
• HW-2, due Mar 30: LaTeX , PS, pdf
  
• HW-3, due Apr 23: LaTeX , PS, pdf
  

Important Dates

• Tuesday-Thursday, March 3,5: No class, Spring Break
• Friday, April 24: Classes end

HELP

• A New Book about numerical methods by the inventor of MATLAB.
• A really useful page from the University of Houston
• Matlab: UCLA MATLAB online Reference Document , Florida MATLAB online Reference Document , Michigan Tech MATLAB Help, Michigan Tech MATLAB Help in Postscript, MATLAB help at Utah , MATLAB help at GMU , MATLAB help from Indiana, Matlab primer,
• NCSU Tutorials , EOS/Unity Tutor
• sample2e.tex for LaTeX2e, LaTeX help at NCSU