UNSW Handbook Course - Advanced Mathematical Computing

Advanced Mathematical Computing - MATH3301


	Faculty: Faculty of Science
	School: School of Mathematics
	Campus: Kensington Campus
	Career: Undergraduate
	Units of Credit: 6
	Contact Hours per Week: 4
	Enrolment Requirements:
	Prerequisite: 12 units of credit in Level 2 Math courses including MATH2120 or MATH2130 and MATH2301; Excluded: MATH3311.
	Offered: Semester 1 2005
	Fee Band: 2

Description

The course has a number of streams dealing with theoretical and practical aspects of floating-point computation as it is needed in numerical simulations for scientific, engineering and financial applications. The mathematical content consists of some essential topics from numerical linear algebra and partial differential equations. However, the main focus of the course is on understanding how numerical application programs can best exploit the capabilities of the available computing hardware, which might be anything from a desktop PC to a high performance computer with multiple processors. The importance of high quality optimizing compilers, numerical libraries and visualization software is also emphasized. Students will learn Fortran 90 and use this language for programming assignments

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