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MATH 170B, lecture A

Spring 2021

Disclaimer: This is the website of lecture A. Lecture B runs in parallel and is taught by Emmanuel Vavalis. Before continuing on this website, please make sure you are actually enrolled in lecture A.

Announcements

  • Final on Wednesday, June 9! The material is everything discussed during this quarter, but with focus on later chapters. The final will be 70 min (60 min working time, 10 min upload time). There will be two windows to take the final: 8-10 am and 5-7 pm (please read the Canvas announcement).
  • Quiz 2 on Friday, May 21! The window is 1 pm - 1 am, the quiz time is 30 min. Material: 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6, 7.1 (essentially lectures 13, 15-21).
  • Midterm on Friday, April 30! The window is 6 pm - 8 pm, the exam time is 70 min (60 min working time, 10 min upload time). Material: 3.3, 3.4, 6.1, 6.2 (essentially lectures 8-12).
  • Quiz 1 on Friday, April 16! The window is 1 pm - 1 am, the quiz time is 30 min. Material: 1.1, 1.2, 3.1, 3.2 (essentially lectures 1-7).
  • March 26: Welcome to MATH 170B! Please make sure to read all of the course information on this website before the first lecture on March 29.

Course information

  • Course type: This class is completely remote. Lecture, discussion sections and office hours are held via zoom. Recordings of all lectures and discussion sections will be made available to enrolled students. See details in the syllabus.
  • Catalog description: Rounding and discretization errors. Calculation of roots of polynomials and nonlinear equations. Interpolation. Approximation of functions.
  • Prerequisites: MATH 170A. You should have solid calculus knowledge (there will be proofs), you should know basic programming (as taught in MATH170A). See the syllabus for details.
  • Textbook: D. Kincaid and W. Cheney, Numerical Analysis: Mathematics of Scientific Computing, Third Edition. Lecture notes will be available as well. The lecture notes are an addition to the textbook, they do not replace it.
  • Piazza: We will be using Piazza for course related questions. Please sign up to join the group.

Instructors

Name Role Email Section Office hour
Caroline Moosmüller Instructor cmoosmueller (at) ucsd (dot) edu A00 MW 10-11 am
and by appointment
Jasper Bird TA j1bird (at) ucsd (dot) edu A03 Th 5-6 pm
Jiang Wang TA jiw078 (at) ucsd (dot) edu A01, A02 M 5-6 pm, Tu 3-4 pm

Synchronous class meetings

Lectures, discussion sections and office hours will be held synchronously via zoom (links available on Canvas). Recordings of all lectures and discussion sections will be made available on Canvas.

Note that all discussion sections cover the same material, so it is enough to join one of the discussion sections.

You may attend the office hours of any and all instructors, regardless of discussion section enrollment.

Attendance is not mandatory, but highly recommended!

Meeting type Instructor Date Time Place
Lecture A00 Caroline Moosmüller MWF 9-9:50 am Zoom LTI PRO tab in Canvas
Discussion A01 Jiang Wang Th 2-2:50 pm Zoom LTI PRO tab in Canvas
Discussion A02 Jiang Wang Th 3-3:50 pm Zoom LTI PRO tab in Canvas
Discussion A03 Jasper Bird Th 4-4:50 pm Zoom LTI PRO tab in Canvas
Office hour Caroline Moosmüller MW 10-11 am Zoom LTI PRO tab in Canvas
Office hour Jasper Bird Th 5-6 pm Zoom LTI PRO tab in Canvas
Office hour Jiang Wang M
Tu
5-6 pm
3-4 pm
Zoom LTI PRO tab in Canvas

Lecture notes

Lecture notes will be made available on Canvas under Files.

Homework

There will be weekly homework. See the syllabus for details.

Discussion section problems

Discussion section problems will be posted on Canvas a few days before discussion sections take place. You should try to attempt the problems yourself before joining discussion sections (this will help you solve the homework). Solutions to the problems will also be posted to Canvas afterwards.