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Terminated in academic year 2019/2020

Numerical Methods

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 714-0253/02
Abbreviation NM
Course title Numerical Methods
Credits 4
Coordinating department Department of Mathematics and Descriptive Geometry
Course coordinator RNDr. Jana Staňková, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

Problematics of numerical computing . Sources and types of errors. Conditionality of problems and algorithms.
Methods for solving algebraic and transcendental equations. The bisection method, the iterative method for solving equations.
The Newton method, the Regula-Falsi (False-Position) method, the combined method.
Solving systems of linear equations. Direct solution methods. Iterative methods (the Jacobi method, the Seidel method). Matrix norms.
Interpolation and approximation of functions. Approximation – the least-square method. Lagrange interpolation polynomials.
Newton interpolation polynomials. Spline-function interpolation.
Numerical integration. Newton-Cotes quadrature formulas. Composed quadrature formulas. Error estimation.
The Richardson extrapolation.
Initial value problems for ordinary differential equations. One-step methods. The Euler method. Error estimation using the half-step method.
The Runge-Kutta methods. Estimation of the approximation error.

Literature

Kučera, R.: Numerické metody. VŠB-TU Ostrava 2007, na www.studopory.vsb.cz, mdg.vsb.cz/M,ISBN 80-248-1198-7.

Advised literature

Harshbarger, Ronald; Reynolds, James: Calculus with Applications, D.C. Heath and
Company 1990, ISBN 0-669-21145-1