CS370 - Numerical Computation

I took this course because there is a chapter in PMPP that covers how floating numbers are represented, which I haven’t really been ready for.

Concepts

Chapter 1

• Floating-Point Number System
• Conditioning of Problems
• Stability of Algorithms

Chapter 2

• Interpolation
• Hermite Interpolation
• Cubic Spline
• Bernstein Polynomials
• B-Spline
• Bezier Curve

Chapter 3

• Parametric Equation

Chapter 4: Differential Equations

• Initial Value Problem
• Logistic Growth
• Forward Euler Method
• Backward Euler Method
• Stability of Algorithms

Chapter 5: Discrete Fourier Transforms

• Fourier Series
• Discrete Fourier Transform
• Fast Fourier Transform
• Inverse Discrete Fourier Transform

Chapter 6: Numerical Linear Algebra

• Matrix Factorization
• LU Factorization

Chapter 7: Google Page Rank

• Page Rank