Topic outline

  • Spring 2022 Edition

    The official language of the course is English. We'll have two live lectures per week at the U1 lecture hall (U154) of Otakaari 1. Lecture notes by Harri Hakula are in typeset form and cover part of the course. Ridgway Scott's book will be available as a PDF file. The lectures are inspired by Greenbaum & Chartier, which is the recommended text book.

    This course is a gentle introduction to numerical analysis and is suitable for all engineering and mathematically oriented business school students. This is a mathematics course, that is, all computation has to be purposeful with clear understanding of errors and convergence properties of the methods. There will be five exercise sets and MyCo quizzes. Almost every exercise set is structured as a Russian doll, where every subproblem develops on the previous one starting from theory and ending in implementation (MATLAB). Theory problems are submitted online, they are graded by our TAs, but scripts are subject to peer review. Simple model problems are graded with MyCo provided quiz tools.

    Exercise sessions start on week 2 of the course.