MATH 269A
Advanced Numerical Analysis
Description: Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Requisites: courses 115A, 151A, 151B. Numerical solution for systems of ordinary differential equations; initial and boundary value problems. Numerical solution for elliptic, parabolic, and hyperbolic partial differential equations. Topics in computational linear algebra. S/U or letter grading.
Units: 4.0
Units: 4.0
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Fall 2021 - Overall, this class is essentially Math 151B with a few more topics appended to it. This was my first class after a year and a half of covid where I did not learn too much. I think had I learned 151B properly (and knew how to code with MATLAB), this class would be an easy A. The midterm and final are comprised with computational problems, 5 true/false and a few conceptual questions. The grading scheme is 55% HW, 20% Midterm and 25% Final. Even though it is a graduate course, it doesn't have a curve so you need a 93%+ for an A. Anderson is a pretty nice guy and always open to help. I would definitely take another class with him. I only went to lectures for the first half of the quarter because I got tired of waking up for 9ams. Our TA Cameron Kissler is one of the nicest people I've met and any class with him as the TA I would enroll in. One great thing about Anderson is he grades super fast. Less than a week turnaround for both exam scores. The exams itself are both 50 minutes (midterm around week 5 and final friday week 10). They are very fair and everyone seems to do well on them. The homework took a while for me but that's because I didn't go to lectures nor knew how to code that well (first time coding in MATLAB). Overall, If you did well in 151AB and want to try a graduate course - I'd recommend this course. If you are a graduate student, this should be probably the easiest graduate course you take.
Fall 2021 - Overall, this class is essentially Math 151B with a few more topics appended to it. This was my first class after a year and a half of covid where I did not learn too much. I think had I learned 151B properly (and knew how to code with MATLAB), this class would be an easy A. The midterm and final are comprised with computational problems, 5 true/false and a few conceptual questions. The grading scheme is 55% HW, 20% Midterm and 25% Final. Even though it is a graduate course, it doesn't have a curve so you need a 93%+ for an A. Anderson is a pretty nice guy and always open to help. I would definitely take another class with him. I only went to lectures for the first half of the quarter because I got tired of waking up for 9ams. Our TA Cameron Kissler is one of the nicest people I've met and any class with him as the TA I would enroll in. One great thing about Anderson is he grades super fast. Less than a week turnaround for both exam scores. The exams itself are both 50 minutes (midterm around week 5 and final friday week 10). They are very fair and everyone seems to do well on them. The homework took a while for me but that's because I didn't go to lectures nor knew how to code that well (first time coding in MATLAB). Overall, If you did well in 151AB and want to try a graduate course - I'd recommend this course. If you are a graduate student, this should be probably the easiest graduate course you take.
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