| Aug 27 - Sep 3 | Linear algebra review; Gaussian elimination | |
| Sep 6 - Sep 10 | Triangular factors and symmetric systems | |
| Sep 13 - Sep 17 | Floating point numbers and norms | |
| Sep 20 - Sep 24 | Singularity, condition number and the SVD | |
| Sep 27 - Oct 1 | Application of the SVD to information retrieval | |
| Oct 4 - Oct 8 | Orthogonal matrices and Gram-Schmidt factorization | |
| Fall break Oct 11-12 | Oct 11 - Oct 15 | Householder reflections and least squares problems |
| Oct 18 - Oct 22 | Eigenvalues, Lanczos and Arnoldi | |
| Oct 25 - Oct 29 | Conjugate gradient method | |
| Nov 1 - Nov 5 | Newton's method | |
| Nov 8 - Nov 12 | Constrained optimization and Lagrange multipliers | |
| Nov 15 - Nov 19 | Initial value problems | |
| Thanksgiving break Nov 24-26 | Nov 22 - Nov 26 | Order of accuracy; stiff problems |
| Nov 29 - Dec 3 | Two-point boundary value problems |
handed out 8/27/04