Syllabus

Week 1 : Theory of initial value problems

Week 2 : Euler’s method

Week 3 : Taylor’s series methods

Week 4 : Runge-Kutta methods

Week 5 : Multistep methods

Week 6 : Multistep methods

Week 7-8 : Convergence and error analysis, stability

Week 9-10 : Higher order equations and systems of differential equations

Week 11 : Linear systems of equations: Pivoting and matrix algebra, Gauss elimination

Week 12 :  Matrix factorization

Week 13 :  Norms of vectors and matrices,  Eigenvalues and eigenvectors

Week 14 : Iterative techniques