| 31 January 2026 |
Introduction. Overview of course |
Lecture Note we’ll be following na17.pdf |
| 5 February 2026 |
Floating Point Arithmetic |
Chapter 1.1 to 1.3 of na17.pdf; my notes |
| 7 February 2026 |
Rounding Error, Loss of Significance |
Chapter 1.4 to 1.5 of na17.pdf; my notes; class scribbles; recording |
| 12 February 2026 |
No class (Election holiday) |
- |
| 14 February 2026 |
Taylor series, polynomial interpolation |
Chapter 2.1 to 2.2 of na17.pdf; my notes; class scribbles; recording |
| 19 February 2026 |
Lagrange interpolation, Quiz 1 |
Chapter 2.3 of na17.pdf; my notes; Quiz 1 Solutions |
| 21 February 2026 |
No class (International Mother Language Day) |
- |
| 26 February 2026 |
Newton’s divided difference, interpolation error |
Chapter 2.4, 2.5 of na17.pdf; my notes |
| 28 February 2026 |
Chebyshev nodes, Hermite interpolation |
Chapter 2.6, 2.7 of na17.pdf; my notes |
| 5 March 2026 |
Differentiation, Quiz 2 |
Chapter 3.1, 3.2 of na17.pdf |
| 7 March 2026 |
Rounding Error, Richardson Extrapolation |
Chapter 3.2, 3.3 of na17.pdf |
| 12 March 2026 |
Bisection Method |
Chapter 4.1 of na17.pdf; class scribbles; recording |
| 14 March 2026 |
Fixed-point Iteration Method |
Chapter 4.2 of na17.pdf; class scribbles; recording |