There are 2 parts to these notes, each addressing the topics of a year-long

course in scienti c computing. The courses are math475A and math475B

at
U. Arizona. Since the students taking this course sequence come from
diverse
backgrounds and most of them do not know any analysis, we have focused
on scienti c computing, rather than numerical analysis.
These notes were never developed for public consumption, and just like
other
sets of elementary scienti c computing notes and textbooks, originality is
not
one of its strong characteristics. There are a few books which have
strongly
in uenced what is presented here: the book by Atkinson on numerical anal-
ysis (I expressly use an old edition), Isaacson and Keller's book
which is
available from Dover, my own student notes (I took numerical analysis from
Ridgway Scott, Jinchao Xu, Douglas Arnold, and Todd Dupont, and
at-
tended classes by Stanley Osher while at UCLA).
An alternative set of notes that is worth looking at are those prepared by
Cleve Moler, and are available freely from his Mathworks site.
The portion of these notes related to linear algebra is cursory. The reason
is simple: there are people who can do a much better job at
presenting
this material and there are good books out there that cover that material.
With regard to fundamentals I would strongly suggest Strang's linear
algebra
book, as well as Trefethen and Bau's book. Their geometric approach has
revolutionized how applied linear algebra is taught. The geometric
approach
develops the type of insight fundamental to scienti c computing.
These notes are being extensively revised. The major revisions are: (1)
Incor-
poration of many more examples. (2) Restructuring of the course material.
(3) Making greater use of hyperlinks in order to reduce the complexity of
the
notes, while at the same time making the cross references a useful feature
of
the text. (4) Changing the notes to PDF format