{"id":854,"date":"2022-12-09T13:21:05","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T18:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/spollock\/?page_id=854"},"modified":"2026-04-16T14:44:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T18:44:26","slug":"s23-mat4401-6932","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/spollock\/courses\/s23-mat4401-6932\/","title":{"rendered":"MAT 4930\/6932 Computational Methods (S23)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"fullwidth-text-block\"><div class=\"container px-0\"><div class=\"row align-items-start\"><div class=\"col-12\">\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">MAT 4930\/6932 Computational Methods (S23)<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Time and Location<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">M W F Period 5 (11:45-12:35pm), Little Hall (LIT) 205<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/spollock\/courses\/s23-mat4401-6932\/mat-4930-6932-syllabus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Syllabus<\/strong><\/a> <small>&lt;- (that\u2019s a <a href=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/spollock\/courses\/s23-mat4401-6932\/mat-4930-6932-syllabus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">link<\/a>, click on it!)<\/small><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Homework: Posted on&nbsp;<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/elearning.ufl.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Canvas<\/a><\/strong>.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Assignments should be turned in by Canvas, by 6pm the day they are due.&nbsp; <strong>Typed<\/strong> assignments may be turned in until 6am the following morning (12 hours after the standard deadline).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Useful Links:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n\n<hr>\n<hr>\n<h3>Useful References:<\/h3>\n<h4>Linear Algebra:<\/h4>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<ul>\n<li>Linear Algebra and its Applications. G. Strang<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Numerical Linear Algebra:<\/h4>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<ul>\n<li class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">Numerical Linear Algebra. L. Trefethen and D. Bau (our textbook).<\/li>\n<li class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">Matrix Computations. G. Golub and C. Van Loan.<\/li>\n<li class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">Accuracy and Stability of Numerical Algorithms. N. Higham.<\/li>\n<li class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">Matrix Analysis. R. Horn and C. Johnson.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computation:<\/h4>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<ul>\n<li>Numerical Mathematics. A. Quarteroni, R. Sacco and F. Saleri.<\/li>\n<li>Numerical Analysis. D. Kincaid and W. Cheney.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr>\n<p>This is not a programming class, but I expect you to understand and use basic control structures such as <strong>for<\/strong>, <strong>while<\/strong> and <strong>if<\/strong> statements, to assign and access variables within arrays, and to define and call functions. Sample code will be provided. Here are some <strong>useful programming resources:<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr>\n<h4>Getting started with Matlab:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Official \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/help\/matlab\/getting-started-with-matlab.html\">Getting started with Matlab\u201d<\/a> guide (by Mathworks)<\/li>\n<li>Official &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/learn\/tutorials\/matlab-onramp.html?gclid=CjwKCAjwjdOIBhA_EiwAHz8xm4mBi02Rf4MXLZA58clzBpk6eAuC8RHer2OjN1_-tEIOoayN-9NnYBoC108QAvD_BwE&amp;ef_id=CjwKCAjwjdOIBhA_EiwAHz8xm4mBi02Rf4MXLZA58clzBpk6eAuC8RHer2OjN1_-tEIOoayN-9NnYBoC108QAvD_BwE:G:s&amp;s_kwcid=AL!8664!3!429145757409!p!!g!!matlab%20onramp&amp;s_eid=ppc_108293288628&amp;q=matlab%20onramp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Matlab Onramp<\/a>&#8221; interactive course (by Mathworks)<\/li>\n<li>A quick tutorial on Matlab, by Gowtham Bellala, U. Mich.<\/li>\n<li>Or, just do a search on \u201cmatlab tutorial,\u201d and you will find many options.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Matlab users: Getting started with Python (and R):<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/numpy.org\/doc\/stable\/user\/numpy-for-matlab-users.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NumPy for Matlab users<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Mathesaurus: <a href=\"http:\/\/mathesaurus.sourceforge.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Matlab synonymous commands in Python\/NumPy,R<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Libraries of Test Matrices<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/help\/matlab\/ref\/gallery.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Description<\/a> of matrices generated by Matlab&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/help\/matlab\/ref\/gallery.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">gallery<\/a> function<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sparse.tamu.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sparse matrices collection<\/a> by Tim Davis<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":922,"featured_media":0,"parent":8,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"featured_post":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-854","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/spollock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/spollock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/spollock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/spollock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/922"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/spollock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=854"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/spollock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1207,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/spollock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/854\/revisions\/1207"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/spollock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/spollock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}