Math 420 - Numerical Analysis

Spring Term 2026

Lecture Notes
  1. Section 2.2
  2. Sections 2.3-2.5
  3. Section 3.1
  4. Section 3.2
  5. Section 3.3
  6. Section 3.4
  7. Sections 4.1 and 4.2
  8. Sections 4.3 and 4.4
  9. Section 4.5
  10. Section 4.7
  11. Sections 5.1 to 5.3
  12. Section 5.4
  13. Chapter 5 Mathematica Notebook: PDF,Notebook
  14. Section 5.5
  15. Section 5.9
  16. Section 6.1
  17. Section 6.2
  18. Section 6.3
  19. Section 6.4
  20. Section 6.5
  21. Section 6.6
  22. Section 7.1
  23. Section 7.2
  24. Section 7.3
  25. Section 7.4
  26. Section 7.5
  27. Section 7.6
  28. Sections 10.1 and 10.2
  29. Section 10.4
  30. Section 10.5
  31. Sections 11.1 and 11.2
  32. Section 11.3
  33. Section 11.4
  34. Section 12.1
  35. Sections 12.2 and 12.3
  36. Section 11.5
  37. 11.5 Mathematica Notebook
  38. Section 12.4
  39. 12.4 Mathematica Notebook
  40. Section 9.3
  41. Sections 9.4 and 9.5
Assignments
  1. Problems 2.2.6, 2.2.14a, 2.3.6b, 2.3.8b, 2.3.24, 2.5.12a : due Wed., April 8.
  2. Problems 3.1.6c, 3.1.8c, 3.2.2c, 3.3.4b, 3.3.8a, 3.4.2d, 3.4.4d: due Mon., April 13
  3. Problems 4.1.10a, 4.2.8, 4.3.6c, 4.4.4b, 4.4.12, 4.5.2b, 4.5.14, 4.7.2c, 4.7.4c: due Friday, April 17
  4. Problems 5.2.6c, 5.2.8c, 5.3.6c, 5.4.4b, 5.4.16b, 5.5.2d, 5.9.2c, 5.9.4c: due Monday, April 27
  5. Problems 6.3.6ac, 6.4.10, 6.5.10b, 6.6.6c, 6.6.12d, 6.6.16: due Monday, May 4
  6. Problems 7.2.2d, 7.2.10d, 7.3.6c, 7.3.8c, 7.4.6c, 7.5.2d, 7.5.4d, 7.6.6d: due Wednesday, May 13
  7. Problems 10.1.6d, 10.2.2c, 10.4.2a, 11.2.4b, 11.3.4b: due Friday, May 29
Exams

First Midterm

The first midterm exam is coming up on Friday, April 24. Here is some more information about the exam to help you prepare.

Second Midterm

The second midterm exam is coming up on Wednesday, May 20. Here is some more information about the exam to help you prepare.

Final Exam

The final exam is scheduled for 8:00-10:30 on the morning of Tuesday, June 2. Here is some more information about the exam to help you prepare.

Resources

Syllabus

The syllabus for this course is here.

Getting set up to use Visual Studio Code and Python

Here is a guide to getting started with Python.