Lecture Notes by Prof. K. Nandakumar: (these are PDF files only)

NOTE for graduate students: These notes cover mostly undergraduate material. At present they are useful to you only as a reference material on what you shoud know already, but not as reading material for this course. It is my intention to update these notes to include graduate level material as time permits!

• Table of Contents
• Chapter 1 - On mathematical models
• Chapter 2 - Single nonlinear algebraic equation
• Chapter 3 - System of linear algebraic equations - revised Jan'98
• Chapter 4 - System of nonlinear algebraic equations
• Chapter 5 - Numerical differentiation, integration
• Chapter 6 - Ordinary differential equations - Initial value problems
• Chapter 7 - Ordinary differential equations - Boundary value problems
• Appendix A - Inroduction to computers
• Appendix B - Notes on Matlab
• Appendix C - Notes on basic Unix commands

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Matlab, Matlab Basics, Mathematica, Maple, GAMS, Netlib, Dynamical Systems Course