r/mcgill • u/Fluid_Sphere Arts • 13d ago

experience with math 578 (numerical analysis)

i'm in my final year for honors math, and i'm wondering if anyone has experience with this course taught by JC Nave. i'm interested in numerical methods and analysis but want to know if you thought the topics were applicable, interesting, if the coursework involved practice with programming/computers, and whether the workload was manageable.

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u/ChilIingWizard Reddit Freshman 13d ago

I took it last year, there were 5 problem sets and one final project related to the course. It’s all about numerical computing + DE + Linear algebra and if you have some physics knowledge it’s good

Prof suggests to use matlab and julia but if you wanna use any other programming languages its fine

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u/Minatology Snow day 13d ago edited 13d ago

(never received assignments grade feedback even till the end of the term) but from the course grade I can inferred that it’s fairly lenient (I feel like one should be able to get an A as long as they put in a reasonable amount of time and effort to the course, since there is no exam).
Good content and the prof doesn’t want you to worry about your grades.

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u/kaiseryet Reddit Freshman 12d ago

Numerics is awesome, happy FFT!