Welcome

Welcome to Numerical Computation, CSCI-3656 and CSCI-5606

Logistics

• CSCI-3656 Meeting Time: MWF 11:15-12:05 in CASE E340

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• CSCI-5606 Meeting Time: MWF 2:30-3:20 in ECCS 1B14

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• Office hours: Choose a time (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

  • 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