March 25 2025
Here are a few resources for the courses MATH 445 (Numerical Analysis) and MATH 545 (Numerical Analysis I) at the College of Charleston. These course share class meeting,s but asesment tasks are different, as discussed in the syllabi:
There is no longer a required text to buy; we will use free online resources; primarily Numerical Methods and Analysis with Python, a Jupyter Book that I am creating with some contributions from Steven Roberts of the Australian National University.If students are interested in the new programmng language Julia (intended as a modern, faster, open-source alternative to both Matlab and R), this text is also available in a version using that language: Numerical Methods and Analysis with Julia, though that is still in an earler stage of creation. (If any student wishes, course work could be done with Julia instead of Python; that might help a bit if you have to work with people who are still stuck using Matlab!)
A related resource that might help is this Python tutorial.