.. _ch01_disclaimers:

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Disclaimers
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These lecture notes on Foundations of Scientific Computing
are going to be progressively under development for the course
`AMS 213B <https://ams213b-spring16-01.courses.soe.ucsc.edu>`_  at
`the Department of Applied Mathematics
<https://www.soe.ucsc.edu/departments/applied-mathematics-statistics>`_ of
`the University of California Santa Cruz <http://www.ucsc.edu>`_,
`Spring Quarter, 2016 <https://courses.soe.ucsc.edu/courses/ams>`_.

The most parts of the contents of the materials are in progress and
they are continuosly getting updated and modified throughout the
entire quarter.

The materials are intended to serve as a good intelletual guidance for
the course, and it is never meant to be neither perfect nor best.


.. _ch01_course_mission:

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Course Mission
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This graduate level course provides an introduction to the numerical
solutions of ordinary and partial differential equations (ODEs and
PDEs).
The course focuses on the derivation of discrete solution methods for
a wide variety of differential equations and their stability and
convergence.
The course also provides hands-on experience on implementing numerical
algorithms for
solving engineering and scientific problems using the widely available
MATLAB software.
Class will be taught by classroom lectures and hands-on programming sections.


.. _ch01_website:

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About the Website
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These online class materials are writen in `Sphinx <http://sphinx-doc.org>`_.


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License
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All contents including example codes are lincesed under a
`Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/>`_.