Welcome

Welcome to Principles of Numerical Computation, CSCI-5606

Logistics

• CSCI-5606 Meeting Time: MWF 10:10-11:00 in DLC 1B20

  • Canvas page

• Drop-in hours: Choose a time

• Make an appointment) (individual or group)

Resources

• SIAM Membership is free for CU students (30% discount on SIAM books)

• Books

  • Driscoll and Braun, Fundamentals of Numerical Computation

    • free, in Julia with demo notebooks

  • Greenbaum and Chartier (2012), Numerical Methods Design, Analysis, and Computer Implementation of Algorithms

    • an excellent, comprehensive book

    • not free; uses Matlab for limited numerical examples

  • Sauer (2012), Numerical Analysis

    • used for this course in other semesters.

  • Boyd and Vandenberghe (2018), Introduction to Applied Linear Algebra

    • practical introduction to linear algebra for computer scientists; free PDF

  • 3Blue1Brown, Linear Algebra

    • collection of beautiful videos visualizing linear algebra

  • Trefethen and Bau (1997), Numerical Linear Algebra (PDF via library)

    • fantastic, but limited to numerical linear algebra and covers more advanced topics; free PDF via library

  • Myers, Van de Geijn, and Van de Geijn (2020), Linear Algebra: Foundations to Frontiers

    • linear algebra with attention to performance; free PDF and videos

  • Eijkhout (2023), The Art of HPC

    • collection of free books on numerical and scientific computing, plus “carpentry”

• Papers

  • Butler, Enhancing and undermining intrinsic motivation: The effects of task-involving and ego-involving evaluation on interest and performance

  • Turk, Scaling a code in the human dimension arXiv