Elements of Scientific Computing

3 Hours

Explore the fundamentals of software issues related to scientific computing. Discuss subjects including floating-point computations, numerical computation errors, interpolation, integration, solution of linear systems of equations, optimization, and initial value problems of ordinary differential equations. Examine implementation of algorithms that are investigated using Python for all scientific computations. Computer Science 323E and 323H may not both be counted. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.