Department of Mathematics

Math 300: Mathematical Computing

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Math 300 Text Pages

• Remote Access (Notes)
• Command lines
• Some Unix Commands
• Managing Processes
• Shells and scripts
• Shell command cheat sheet
• Setting File Permissions
• File systems
• File types
• ICE
• GUIs
  • ICE
• Computerworld History of Unix
• Markup Language
• Hypertext Markup Languange
• HTML ICE
• HTML Cheat Sheet
• HTML5
• Mathematical Typesetting
• The current status and future of MathML
• MathML (ICE)
• MathML/SVG Example (ICE)
• MathML
• MathML Cheat Sheet
• SVG
• SVG ICE
• SVG Cheat Sheet
• Non-decimal numbers (ICE)
• Color Specifications
• Image Formats
• Cascading Style Sheets
  • CSS Basics
  • Setting up CSS pages (Notes)
  • Style Tags (ICE)
  • Cascading Style Cheat Sheet
• XML
  • MathML, XML, and XHTML
  • XHTML
• Computers and the Internet
• Computers (Notes)
• URLs (Notes)
• URLs (ICE)
• Internet Protocol
• Other Networking Info
• Using TeX
  • Installing MikTeX
  • Basic LaTeX (ICE)
  • LaTeX Mathematics (ICE)(Characteristic Polynomial)
  • LaTeX Does Details (ICE)
  • Spacing and Fonts (ICE)
  • Packages
  • A sample TeX file, and the LaTeX to create it
  • Latex Hints (PDF
  • Class Notes - 2012
  • Essentials of TeX
  • Extended Latex reference
  • TeX Symbols
  • TeX Presentations (Beamer)
• Mathematical Software
  • General considerations
  • Programming
  • An example
• Basic Matlab (ICE)
  • Vectors and Matrices in Matlab
  • Floating Point Numbers in Matlab
  • Strings in Matlab
  • Flow Control in Matlab
  • Vector Tricks in Matlab
  • Publishing a Script
  • Scripts and Functions
  • 2-D Plots
  • Matlab Function ICE (differentiation)
  • Matlab Function ICE (integration)
  • Matlab Function ICE (integration)
  • Example of writing a function
  • Text Handling
  • Matlab Cheat Sheet
  • Newton's Method ICE
  • Secant Method ICE
• Maple
• Basic Maple
• Maple Arrays
• Flow Control
• Strings
• Packages
• Plot Options
• Maple ICE
• Maple ICE
• Python
• Getting Python
• Python Basics
• Python Data Types
• Python Arrays
• Python Ranges
• Python Function Files
• Python Flow Control
• Python Classes
• Python Strings
• Python Speed
• Python Plots
• Python Symbolics
• Python Solving
• Python Trade-offs
• Python ICEs
• ICE 1
• ICE 2
• ICE 3
• ICE 4
• ICE 5
• ICE 6
• ICE 7
• ICE 8
• Other in-class scripts

Welcome to Math 300!



Assignment 4 is posted.




There will be a quiz on Monday, 18 September. You may use any paper notes or even books that you like, but no electronic devices are permitted. That means, no calculators, no phones. There is a sample exam available.