This course is based on one originated by Nick Trefethen; you can find
information on that
course here.
  
Over the semester, we will read a series of papers on Numerical
Analysis; a superset of the papers that we may read is below.
  
Misc.
  An Algorithm for the Machine
	      Calculation of Complex Fourier Series, by
	      J.W. Cooley and J.W. Tukey, Math. Comput. 19, 297-301
	      (1965).
 To be added: Aitken
  
Numerical Integration
 Calculation of Gauss Quadrature
    Rules, by G.H. Golub and J.H. Welsch, Math. Comput. 23,
    221-230 (1969).
  
ODEs
 A Special Stability Problem for
    Linear Multistep Methods, by G.G. Dahlquist, BIT 3, 27-43
    (1963).
 On the Attainable Order of Runge-Kutta
    Methods, by J.C. Butcher, Math. Comput. 19, 408-417 (1965).
  
PDEs
 On the Partial
    Difference Equations of Mathematical Physics, by R. Courant,
    K. Friedrichs, and H. Lewy, Mathematische Annalen 100, 32-74
    (1928). 
 Variational Methods for the Solution
    of Problems of Equilibrium and Vibrations, by R. Courant,
    Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society 49, 1-23 (1943).
 Survey of the Stability of Linear
    Finite Difference Equations, by P.D. Lax and R.D. Richtmyer,
    Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics 9, 267-293 (1956).
 Systems of Conservation Laws,
  by P. Lax and B. Wendroff, Communications on Pure and Applied
  Mathematics 13, 217-237 (1960).
  
Optimization
 Maximization of a Linear Function of
    Variables Subject to Linear Inequalities, by G.B. Dantzig,
    Activity Analysis of Production and Allocation,
    pp. 339-347. Cowles Commission Monograph No. 13. John Wiley &
    Sons, Inc., New York, N. Y.; Chapman & Hall, Ltd., London, 1951.
 Application of the Simplex Method to
    a Transportation Problem, by G.B. Dantzig,
    Activity Analysis of Production and Allocation,
    pp. 359-373. Cowles Commission Monograph No. 13. John Wiley &
    Sons, Inc., New York, N. Y.; Chapman & Hall, Ltd., London, 1951.
 A New Polynomial-Time Algorithm for
    Linear Programming, by N. Karmarkar, Combinatorica 4, 373-395
    (1984).
 The Convergence of a Class of
    Double-Rank Minimization Algorithms 1. General Considerations,
    by C.G. Broyden, J. Inst. Maths Applics 6, 76-90 (1970).
 A New Approach to Variable Metric
    Algorithms, by R. Fletcher, The Computer Journal 13, 317-322
    (1970).
 A Family of Variable-Metric Methods
    Derived by Variational Means, by D. Goldfarb, Math. Comp. 24,
    23-26 (1970).
 Conditioning of Quasi-Newton Methods
    for Function Minimization, by D.F. Shanno, Math. Comp. 24,
    647-656 (1970).
  
Direct Methods in Linear Algebra
 Error Analysis of Direct Methods of
    Matrix Inversion, by J.H. Wilkinson,
    J. Assoc. Comput. Mach. 8, 281-330 (1961).
 Computation of Plane Unitary Rotations
    Transforming a General Matrix to Triangular Form, by
    W. Givens, J. Soc. Indust. Appl. Math. 6, 26 - 50 (1958).
 Unitary Triangularization of a
    Nonsymmetric Matrix, by A.S. Householder,
    J. Assoc. Comput. Mach. 5, 339-342 (1958).
 Gaussian Elimination is not
    Optimal, by V. Strassen, Numer. Math. 13, 354-356 (1969).
 Nested Dissection of a Regular Finite
    Element Mesh, by A. George, SIAM J. Numer. Anal. 10, 345-363
    (1973).
  
Iterative Methods in Linear Algebra
 Iterative Methods for Solving Partial
    Difference Equations of Elliptic Type, D. Young,
    Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 76, 92-111 (1954).
 Methods of Conjugate Gradients
    for Solving Linear Systems, M.R. Hestenes and E. Stiefel,
    Journal of Research of the National Bureau of Standards 49,
    409-436 (1952).
 A Generalized Conjugate
    Gradient Method for the Numerical Solution of Elliptic Partial
    Differential Equations, by P. Concus, G.H. Golub, and
    D.P. O'Leary, in Sparse Matrix Computations, J.R. Bunch and
    D.J. Rose, eds., Academic Press, 1976, pp. 309-332.
 An Iterative Solution
    Method for Linear Systems of Which the Coefficient Matrix is a
    Symmetric M-Matrix, by J.A. Meijerink and H.A. van der Vorst,
    Math. Comp. 31, 148-162 (1977).
 GMRES: A Generalized Minimal
    Residual Algorithm for Solving Nonsymmetric Linear Systems, by
    Y. Saad and M.H. Schultz, SIAM J. Sci. Stat. Comput. 7, 856-869
    (1986).
  
Multigrid Methods
 A Relaxation Method for Solving
    Elliptic Difference Equations, by R.P. Fedorenko,
    Z. Vycisl. Mat. i Mat. Fiz. 1, 922-927, 1961.
 The Speed of Convergence of One
    Iterative Process, by R.P. Fedorenko,
    Z. Vycisl. Mat. i Mat. Fiz. 4, 559-564, 1964.
 Multi-Level Adaptive Solutions to
    Boundary-Value Problems, by A. Brandt, Math. Comp. 31, 333-390
    (1977).
 Algebraic Multigrid (AMG)
    for Automatic Multigrid Solution with Application to Geodetic
    Computations, by A. Brandt, S. McCormick, and J. Ruge,
    Tech. Report Inst. Comp. Studies., Colo. State Univ., 1982.
 Algebraic multigrid (AMG)
    for sparse matrix equations, by A. Brandt, S. McCormick, and
    J. Ruge, in Sparsity and its applications (Loughborough, 1983),
    257-284, Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, 1985.
  
Eigenvalues and SVD:
 On the Speed of Convergence of Cyclic
    and Quasicyclic Jacobi Methods for Computing Eigenvalues of
    Hermitian Matrices, by P. Henrici,
    J. Soc. Indust. Appl. Math. 6, 144-162 (1958).
 The QR Transformation: A Unitary
    Analogue to the LR Transformation - Part 1, by J.G.F. Francis,
    Comput. J. 4, 265-271 (1961).
 The QR Transformation - Part 2, by
  J.G.F. Francis,  Comput. J. 4, 332-345 (1962).
 Calculating the Singular Values and
    Pseudo-Inverse of a Matrix, by G. Golub and W. Kahan, J. SIAM
    Numer. Anal. Ser. B 2, 205-224 (1965).
  
Tensors:
 Tensor Decompositions and
    Applications, by T.G. Kolda and B.W. Bader, SIAM Review 51,
    455-500 (2009).
 
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