This list is subject to updating and change.

Course notes and handouts

Library books and other material on reserve

Computers, Software, and online Resources

• If course is being held in the classroom in MDD 212, our computers will have Matlab, Mathematica, and visual C++ on them.
• An account on UL's UCS system may be useful. The UCS system has an environment that is convenient for programming, and it is easy to communicate and share software on UCS. Also,  Fortran 90 is available on UCS. (For instructions on how to run the Fortran 90 compiler, type man f90.)
• The Computer Center has courses to help you, and there are on-line tutorials.
• Mathematica has an online copy of The Mathematica Book.
• MATLAB also has an online manual.
• A wealth of numerical software and related information is available through NETLIB at Oak Ridge National Laboratories or NETLIB at Bell Labs. These Internet sites are valuable continuing references for professionals doing numerical work.
• There are several commercial libraries, including
• The IMSL Library (owned by Visual Numerics in Houston)
• The NAG (Numerical Algorithms Group) library
• The Harwell subroutine library
• The USENET newsgroup sci.math.num-analysis contains interesting discussions of numerical-analysis-based issues.

• Various subroutine libraries and software packages are available.
• The classic LINPACK library. The LINPACK routines are publicly available in Fortran 66 source form.
•  LAPACK, a successor to LINPACK.
• Mathematica. This interactive package can be used for symbolic computation, graphics, and interval computations, and is available on UCS by typing mathematica from a UCS command line prompt.  Mathematica is also available in the lab in MDD212.  As of January, 2005, version 3.0 is available on UCS, and version 4.2 is available in the lab in MDD 212.  A single, shared license of version 5.1, the current version, is available to graduate students in Mathematics; see R. Baker Kearfott if you are interested.  For much work, you will not see a difference between these versions.
• Programs and subroutines supporting other numerical analysis texts are available. These include the programs from the texts:
• Ward Cheney and David Kincaid Numerical Mathematics and Computing, 2nd ed., 1985.
• George Forsythe, Mike Malcolm, and Cleve Moler, Computer Methods for Mathematical Computations
• Besides software packages, other documents are available, including mathematical papers. I will be describing such documents throughout the semester. Most of these will be in the form of TeX ".dvi" or Postscript files. See Preprints and Publications and Course notes and handouts.
• Fortran 95 is the current Fortran standard. Valid FORTRAN-77 programs are also valid Fortran 90 programs, but Fortran 90 contains many features that make scientific programming much easier. Computer scientists will recognise items whose absence caused them to criticize FORTRAN-77.
• A page with links to various on-line introductions to Fortran 90 language features is http://antares.ncl.ac.uk/~sbrooks/links/f90_links.html.
• GNUPLOT is a free utility for plotting functions, data, and curves. It has been installed on UCS, and versions for PC's can be obtained over the Internet. To see how to run GNUPLOT, type "man gnuplot" from a UCS prompt. I have made a comprehensive user's guide available:
• Click here for a DVI file of the GNUPLOT User's Guide.
• Click here for a Postscript file of the GNUPLOT User's Guide.
• Click here for more information and to download a copy of Gnuplot.

Tutorials on makefiles

• Indiana University's makefile introduction
• "How to write a makefile" from Rutgers
• MAKE -- a tutorial
• Another tutoral on makefiles