January Lectures

Monday January 3

Tutorial: no tutorial this week.
Lecture: course introduction; topics we will cover; examples of symbolic and numeric computation in Maple. [Assignment 1 handed out, due January 31]

Monday January 10

Tutorial: no tutorial this week; see tutorial notes in the webpage with examples of symbolic computation in Maple.
Lecture: exact, fixed-point, and floating-point representations of numbers; rounding errors.

Monday January 17

Tutorial: see tutorial notes in the webpage with more examples of symbolic computation in Maple.
Lecture: review of floating-point arithmetic. Approximating functions by Taylor series and other methods; evaluating polynomials.

Monday January 24

Tutorial: tutorial notes of January 17 also applied to this tutorial.
Lecture: explicit, implicit, and parametric representations of curves and surfaces.

Monday January 31

Tutorial: see tutorial notes in the webpage with more on rendering lines and curves for computer display.
Lecture: rendering lines and curves for computer display.