Computational science and engineering i

Lectures: 3 sessions / week, 1 hour / session

Recitations: 1 session / week, 1 hour / session

Calculus of Several Variables (18.02) and Differential Equations (18.03) or Honors Differential Equations (18.034)

This course has four major topics:

I hope you will feel that this is the most useful math course you have ever taken. I will do everything I can to make it so. This will not be like a calculus class where a method is explained and you just repeat it on homework and a test. The goals are to see the underlying pattern in so many important applications—and fast ways to compute solutions.

This course has ten problem sets, three one-hour exams, and no final exam. You may use your textbook and notes on the exams.

Let me try to say this clearly: my life is in teaching, to help you learn. Grades have come out properly for 20 years (almost all A-B). I will NOT spend the semester thinking about grades. I hope you don't either. The homeworks will be important and I plan 3 exams and no final. Those exams are open book and a chance for you to bring key ideas together.

The textbook for this course is:

Strang, Gilbert. Computational Science and Engineering. Wellesley, MA: Wellesley-Cambridge Press, 2007. ISBN: 9780961408817. (Table of Contents)

Information about this book can be found at the Wellesley-Cambridge Press Web site, along with a link to Prof. Strang's new "Computational Science and Engineering" Web page developed as a resource for everyone learning and doing Computational Science and Engineering.

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