Computational Science and Engineering I
As taught in: Fall 2008
This image comes from "A Simple Mesh Generator in MATLAB" submitted to SIAM Review. The mesh was created using the truss model in Section 2.4 of the text; color shows distance to the boundary. (Image courtesy of Per-Olof Persson.)
Instructors:
Prof. Gilbert Strang
MIT Course Number:
18.085
Level:
Course Features
- Video lectures
- Faculty introduction - video
- Subtitles/Transcript
- Assignments and solutions
- Exams and solutions
Course Description
This course provides a review of linear algebra, including applications to networks, structures, and estimation, Lagrange multipliers. Also covered are: differential equations of equilibrium; Laplace's equation and potential flow; boundary-value problems; minimum principles and calculus of variations; Fourier series; discrete Fourier transform; convolution; and applications.
Note: This course was previously called "Mathematical Methods for Engineers I."
*Some translations represent previous versions of courses.
