Mathematics 784: Nonlinear Equations and Optimization
Spring term, 2019, 10:15--11:30 T,TH
Instructor: C. T. Kelley , 515-7163, Tim_Kelley@ncsu.edu
Office hours: SAS 3234, TBA

New implicit filtering code.

• House Rules , pdf
  • General info
  • Syllabus
  • References
• Books: Available for FREE download from siam.org or as NCSU ebooks
  • Iterative Methods for Linear and Nonlinear Equations
    
    • NCSU e-book
    • First printing errors corrected in second printing.
    • Second printing errors corrected in third printing.
    • Third printing errors corrected in fourth printing.
  • Iterative Methods for Optimization
    
    • First printing errors corrected in second printing.
    • NCSU e-book
• I will take some material from these books:
  • Solving Nonlinear Equations with Newton's Method
    • NCSU e-book
  • Implicit Filtering
    • NCSU e-book

MATLAB codes:

• Nonlinear Equations:
  • Use the New Codes not the
  • old ones .
• Optimization: Menu

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Important Dates

• Thursday, February 19, 1st homework assignment due
• Tuesday-Thursday, March 10,12: No class, Spring Break
• Thursday, March 26, 2nd homework assignment due
• Thursday, Aprll 2: No class, Spring Holiday
• Thursday, April 23, 3rd homework assignment due
• Friday, April 24: Classes end

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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

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Last modified: October 3, 2012.