 | Undergraduate Course Descriptions
CSE164A - Introduction to Scientific Computation
Units: 4
Course Objectives:
This course no longer taught after Spring 1999. This course gives an introduction to techniques for solving scientific problems on computers. The goal is to develop an understanding of numerical techniques appropriate for performing large-scale numerical calculations.
Course Description:
Basic techniques for solving numerical problemsTaylor series, error-analysis, interpolation, numerical differentiation and integration, root finding, systems of linear equations, and other topics at the discretion of the instructor.
Format:
3 hours of lecture per week, 1 one-hour section per week, 4 hours of computer lab, and 4 hours of outside preparation.
Prerequisites:
CSE 12, and Math 20D/21D or consent of the instructor.
Other restrictions:
Majors only.
Example Textbook(s):
Numerical Mathematics and Computing , 2nd ed., W. Cheney and D. Kincaid, Brooks/Cole, 1985.
Laboratory work:
Programming assignments.
Offered:
One quarter per year, generally in the Fall.
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