It's honestly not as hard as people say it is. I had Dr. Walsh and she was a brilliant professor. It's easier than MACM201. Just review your notes every day and you'll be fine. Some of the material builds upon the earlier stuff you learn, so make sure you understand it well. Taylor's polynomial is one you should know by heart.
You use MATLAB, some minor programming stuff in there. You work with problems that requires lots of iterations, and MATLAB simplifies it. Go to office hours and you'll be fine. Some of the equations you work with can expand to infinite if you want. It's something that I had a hard time understanding at first. You just have to understand when to cut it off and use what you need to converge.
For question 4a on Section 6.2, if I find that the maximal value on column 1 is 13, and the multiplier is m11 = a11/a11 = 1, what should I do next? Do I move onto the next column until I get a multiplier that is smaller than 1? Thank you very much.
Will all the topics be covered before this Friday? I just found that we still have something we haven't been taught, and the midterm is just this Friday, so it will have no time to prepare the new staff. I haven't seen this situation before.
I didn't think macm 201 was difficult, but I did well in macm 101 as well. It is definitely very mathy. I think in my class the recursion problems were the worst. But practice enough and they're not that hard. Yeah I loved the class though. Umm the graph theory section requires a lot of memorization, I think that was the worst part for me. Just do lots of practice problems and you'll be fine. You will build on all the combinatoric stuff a bit from macm 101 so hopefully you haven't forgotten that yet.
I have been facing some difficulties with the least squares polynomials. Therefore, if you upload an example of this to the class notes would be great.
Hello Dr. Gostaf, could you please upload the solutions of the last assignment with the required steps. Posting just the final solutions does not help.
Comments
13 17 1 |5
0 1 19 |1
0 12 -1 |0
first row, look entries below a11
max (13, 0 0) = 13
we keep the first row
13 17 1 |5
0 1 19 |1
0 12 -1 |0
second row, look entries below a22
max (1 12) = 12
we interchange rows L2 and L3
13 17 1 |5
0 12 -1 |0
0 1 19 |1
L3 <--- L3 - 1/12 * L2
And its due the day of the midterm...
http://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2013/06/09/using-metadata-to-find-paul-revere/
Example: Least squares approximation
Office hours:
Wed @ 11:30 - 13:00, room K9512.1