Math-01802, Numerical Methods
Credit Hours: 03
Course Outlines:
Numerical differentiation, numerical differentiation formulae based on interpolation
polynomials, error estimates, numerical integration, Newton-Cotes formulae, trapezoidal rule,
Simpson’s formulas, composite rules, Romberg improvement, Richardson extrapolation, error
estimates of integration formulas, Gaussian quadrature, difference and differential equations,
formulation of difference equation, solution of homogeneous and non homogeneous difference
equations, system of difference equations, equation reducible to linear difference equations,
approximation of the functions, the Taylor series method, Euler and modified Euler’s, Runge-
Kutta methods and method predictor-corrector methods for solving initial value problems along
convergence and stability, differential equations of higher order, system of differential equations,
shooting methods, boundary value problems, explicit and implicit finite difference methods.
Prescribed Books:
1) David Kincaid, Numerical Analysis, 3rd Edition, American Mathematical Society (2011)
2) Richard L. Burden, Numerical Analysis, Brooks Cole. July (2009)
3) S.D Conte and C. De Boor, Numerical Methods with MATLAB Wiley; 2nd Edition
(2011)
4) Hans F. Weinberger, A First Course in Partial Differential Equations with Complex
Variables and Transform Methods, Dover Publications Inc. (2012)
5) R. Kent Nagle, Edward B. Saff, Arthur David Snider, Fundamentals of Differential
Equations, Addison Wesley Longman Inc. (2000)