Computational Methods for Data Science, Jan-May 2025

Lecture notes

Reading Materials

• Definition of Numerical Analysis
• The \(25\) billion dollar eigenvector: The Linear Algebra behind Google
• The Smart Money's on Numerical Analysts
• Vancouver Stock Exchange crash due to floating point errors
• Some disasters attributable to bad numerical computing
• Numerical Computing with IEEE Floating Point Arithmetic
• What every computational mathematician should know

Assignments

• Assignment 1 due on Feb 2nd by 11:59 PM
• Assignment 2 due on Feb 16th by 11:59 PM
• Assignment 3 due on Mar 2nd by 11:59 PM
• Assignment 4 due on Mar 16th by 11:59 PM
• Assignment 5 due on Mar 30th by 11:59 PM
• Assignment 6 due on Apr 13th by 11:59 PM
• Assignment 7 due on Apr 27th by 11:59 PM