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Software:

• Maple
  • version 10 is installed on campus;
  • can be purchased from the ACCC.
• Matlab
  • version 7 is installed on campus;
  • GNU Octave is freeware compatible in many features Matlab, although not equivalent to it.
• For the introduction to Maple and Matlab see the website for MCS 320, in particular, the lecture notes that were used for this course.

Literature on numerical analysis:

• Walter Gautschi: Numerical Analysis. An introduction. Birkhauser, 1997.
• Gene H. Golub and Charles F. Van Loan: Matrix Computations. Third Edition. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.
• R.W. Hamming: Numerical Methods for Scientists and Engineers. Second Edition, McGraw-Hill, 1973. Dover Publications, 1986.
• Nicholas J. Higham: Accuracy and Stability of Numerical Algorithms. SIAM 1996.
• Eugene Isaacson and Herbert Bishop Keller: Analysis of Numerical Methods. John Wiley & Sons, 1966. Dover Publications, 1994.
• J. Stoer and R. Bulirsch: Introduction to Numerical Analysis. Second Edition. Springer-Verlag, 1993.