Instructor: Thomas Laurent
Office: 5352 Math Sciences Building.
Email: laurent@math.ucla.edu
Web Page: http://www.math.ucla.edu/~laurent
Office Hours : MW 3:00P-4:30P
Teaching Assistant : Ryo Takei
Office: 2344 Math Science Building
Email: rrtakei@ucla.edu
Textbook: R. Burden and J. Faires, Numerical Analysis, 8th Ed., Brooks/Cole.
Requisite: MATH 32B, 33B, 115A
Language: MATLAB
For the computer implementations, we'll
be using Matlab.
Previous familiarity with this package is NOT REQUIRED for enrollment.
Student versions are installed in the PIC Lab (Boelter Hall 2817).
You may check the lab web page at http://www.pic.ucla.edu/piclab.
A class account is created automatically once you are register for this class.
Activate your account in BH 2817 with your bruin on-line username and 9-digit ID number.
The first dicussion will be hold in BH 2817, it will be a crash course in Matlab.
Grading Scheme:
Homework 20%, Midterms 40% (20% each), Final 40%
Exams:
Midterms : Friday, February 1 & Monday, March 3 during Lecture (THESE DATES ARE TENTATIVE)
Final : Thursday, March 20, 2008, 3:00pm-6:00pm
There will be no make-up exams.
No calculators, notes, or books will be permitted in any exams.
Homework:
There will be weekly homework. It is due on Thursdays, in discussion.
No late homework will be accepted.
The lowest homework grade will be dropped.
All numerical computation should be done in MATLAB
The assignments are posted HERE.
Working together on homework:
You are allowed and encouraged to work together on homework assignments.
However, you are expected to write the homework solutions on your own and with your own words.
Outright copying from somebody else's assignment will be considered cheating.
How to write solutions:
When you solve problems for homeworks, quizzes, exams you must provide complete solutions with all steps described in detail.
You must use sentences and paragraphs to describe your reasoning, not just laying out the formulas.
You must not miss steps in solutions just because they look obvious to you.
Updated: December 13, 2007