Math 609
Section 602, Fall 2007
- Instructor:
Dr. Guergana Petrova
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TA:
Dimitar Trenev
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E-mail - trenev@math.tamu.edu
- Office - Blocker 505E
- Office Hours - by appointment
(although feel free to come to my office any time)
- Phone - 845-7652
- Place and Time:
| Day |
Time |
Room |
| Wednesday |
1:50-2:40pm |
BLOC 125 |
- Helpful Links:
- Some Notes about the Math609 Lab/Homework
- A suggestion for your homework
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You are not required to turn in your homework as PDF files,
however you are encouraged to do so.
Here is an example of how such a PDF file should look like: homework.pdf.
Here is the LaTeX source used to create this PDF file :
homework.tex, graph.eps
- To produce a .DVI file from your .TEX file, use the command:
latex [name_of_file].tex
You can view the .DVI file using the program 'xdvi'.
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To convert your .DVI file to a .PS/.PDF file use the commands 'dvips' or 'dvipdf'.
- Past Labs:
- Lab 1 (08/29) : General discussion. Bisection and Newton's methods.
- Problems 2,4/pg.79 and 8,12,14,16/pg.91 from your textbook.
- Discussion of the quadratic convergence of the Newton's method.
- A very simple Maple worksheet
that we used to apply the Newton's method
to a few functions (Problem 8/pg.91). Right click -> Save As,
if you want to run it with maple.
- Lab 2 (09/05) : Fixed points and functional iteration. Basic Liner Algebra review.
- Problems 20,21,29,63/pg.107 and 6,7,15,17,20/pg.147 from your textbook.
- Do not forget you have a
homework assignment.
- Lab 3 (09/12) : Review for Homework Assignment #2
- Few problems from your book (some strongly resemble problems from your homework) : pg. 158 / 5,7,12,13,14,18 and pg. 180 / 3
- Discussion of the programming part (problem #6) of your homework.
- Lab 4 (09/19) : Discussing the solutions of
Homework assignment #1 (which was returned in class).
- Lab 5 (09/26) : Solutions of the second homework. Vector and matrix norms.
- Discussing the solutions of
Homework #2 (which was returned in class).
- Here's a simple MatLab code that solves Problem #6.
- Problems dealing with vector and matrix norms (page 193 from your books).
- Labs 6 and 7 (10/03 and 10/10) : First Midterm Exam (link not posted for obvious reasons ;-)).
- We spent the lab on 10/03 as a Q&A session in preparation for the Exam later that day.
- On 10/10 we went over the problems from the Exam and discussed their solutions in detail.
- Lab 8 (10/17) : Solutions of the third homework (returned in class).
- Discussing the solutions of Homework #3.
- Relation between the spectral radius and subordinate matrix norms. Some related problems from your book.
- Lab 9 (10/24) : Homework #4 due.
- Discussion of the problems in the homework.
- Lab 10 (10/31) : Polynomial interpolation.
- Various problems form 6.1-6.2 in your books.
- Lab 11 (11/07) : Second Midterm Exam.
- Review for the exam, Q&A session.
- Lab 12 (11/14) : Splines, fun with Maple.
- Solved a lot of problems from 6.4 using Maple.
- Lab 13 (11/28) : Last class.
- Q&A session.
- Revisiting Problem 6 from HW#2 (recall a simple code was given before),
and connecting it to the new material and Homework #7.