MT3164: Numerical Analysis


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30 % Internal Evaluation Consists of 4 programming quizzes
30 % Mid-term exam Theory paper
40 % End-term exam Theory paper


Lectures

Date References
Lecture 01 1st Aug 2025 Introduction (Ch 1 till Theorem 4); Video
Lecture 02 6th Aug 2025 Bisection Method (Ch 3.1)
Lecture 03 7th Aug 2025 Newton-Raphson Method (Ch 3.2 before `Implicit Functions')
Lecture 04 8th Aug 2025 Order of Convergence (Ch 1.2)
Lecture 05 13th Aug 2025 quiz0
Lecture 06 14th Aug 2025 Secant Method (Ch 3.3)
Lecture 07 21st Aug 2025 LU Decomposition (Ch 4.2), Video
Quiz 1 22nd Aug 2025 quiz1, input-q1p1, input-q1p2, input-q1p3
Lecture 08 26th Aug 2025 Cholesky Decomposition (Ch 4.2)
Lecture 09 6th Sept 2025 Gaussian Elimination (Ch 4.3 till Theorem 04), Video
Lecture 10 6th Sept 2025 Norms and Error Analysis (Ch 4.4)
Lecture 11 10th Sept 2025 Neumann Series and Iterative Refinement (Ch 4.5 before 'Equilibration')
Lecture 12 11th Sept 2025 Iterative Methods (Ch 4.6 till Corr 1 excluding Thm 3,4), Video
Quiz 2 12th Sept 2025 quiz2, input-q2p1, input-q2p2, input-q2p3-A, input-q2p3-b, input-q2p3-x0
Lecture 13 13th Sept 2025 Steepest Descent Method (Ch 4.7 before Conjugate Directions)
Lecture 14 13th Sept 2025 Conugate Method (Ch 4.7 until Theorem 2)
Lecture 15 17th Sept 2025 Notes
Lecture 16 18th Sept 2025 Notes
Lecture 17 19th Sept 2025 Notes
Mid-Term Exam 8th Oct 2025 Question Paper
Lecture 18 8th Oct 2025 Power Method (Ch 5.1)
Lecture 19 9th Oct 2025 Orthogonal Factorization (Ch 5.3, Theorem 1, 2 and Lemma 1), Video
Lecture 20 8th Oct 2025 Schur's Theorem (Ch 5.2 till Lemma 2)
Lecture 21 15th Oct 2025 SVD, Video
Lecture 22 16th Oct 2025 SVD and Pseudoinverse (Ch 5.4 till Theorem 2)
Quiz 3 17th Oct 2025 quiz3, input-q3p1, input-q3p2, input-q3p3-A, input-q3p3-b
Lecture 23 29th Oct 2025 Polynomial Interpolation (Ch 6.1 till Theorem 2)
Lecture 24 30th Oct 2025 Divided Difference (Ch 6.2 till Theorem 4)
Lecture 25 31st Oct 2025 Spline Interpolation (Ch 6.4 until Theorem 1)
Lecture 26 1st Nov 2025 Chebyshev Polynomials and Lagrange Form (Ch 6.1)
Lecture 27 5th Nov 2025 Runge-Kutta Method Notes
Lecture 28 5th Nov 2025 Introduction to multi-step methods (Adams-Bashforth) Notes
Lecture 29 6th Nov 2025 Numerical Differentiation (Ch 7.1)
Lecture 30 7th Nov 2025 Numerical Integration (Ch 7.2)
Lecture 31 12th Nov 2025 Numerical Integration: Error Analysis (Ch 7.2)
Lecture 32 13th Nov 2025 Simpson's Rule, Method of Undertermined Coefficients (Ch 7.2)
Quiz 4 14th Nov 2025 quiz4, input-q4p2, input-q4p3
End Term Exam 25th Nov 2025


Nr. Book Authors
[1] Numerical Analysis: Mathematics of Scientific Computing David Kincaid and Ward Cheney