Other Reference Material and Resources

Textbook

There is no required textbook for the course. However, we will refer to Numerical Mathematics and Computing 6th edition by Cheney and Kinkaid. The 5th and 7th editions are also fine references.

Previous Editions of This Class

• Fall ‘17
• Spring ‘17
• Fall ‘16
• Fall ‘15
• Spring ‘15

Linear Algebra

• Immersive Linear Algebra
• Essence of Linear Algebra (YouTube, by 3Blue1Brown)
• Linear Algebra (YouTube, by MathTheBeautiful)

Statistics (Goes Beyond Class Material)

• Statistics for Hackers by Jake VanderPlas

Floating Point

• Floating Point Representation (sticky bits, etc)
• Floating Point Visually Explained

Errors

• Big-Oh notation
• Algebraic vs Exponential Convergence
• Algebraic vs Exponential Convergence (slides)

Vectors and Matrices

• What is a vector space?
• What is a vector space?
• “Practical Data Science: Matrices, vectors, and linear algebra”
• Vector Spaces
• Gaussian Blur

Optimization (Goes Beyond Class Material)

• An Interactive Tutorial on Numerical Optimization by Ben Frederickson