Introduction to Computational Physics, Jul-Nov 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 Aug 3rd by 11:59 PM
• Assignment 2 due on Aug 17th by 11:59 PM
• Assignment 3 due on Aug 31st by 11:59 PM
• Assignment 4 due on Sep 14th by 11:59 PM
• Assignment 5 due on Sep 28th by 11:59 PM
• Assignment 6 due on Oct 12th by 11:59 PM
• Assignment 7 due on Oct 26th by 11:59 PM
• Assignment 8 due on Nov 9th by 11:59 PM