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Course notes and handouts

Library books and other material on reserve

Computers, Software, and online Resources

• An account on UL's UCS system will 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.)
• You will need to know (as a minimum) the following:
1. Using the f90 command to invoke the Fortran 90 compiler and to link and run programs.
2. Using an editor such as "vi," "emacs," or ``textedit."
3. Understanding and navigating the Unix directory systems.
The Computer Center has courses to help you, and there are on-line tutorials. I can also schedule some time in the Conference Center "Solarium" to help.
• 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 on UCS.
• We will use the classic LINPACK library. The LINPACK routines are publicly available in Fortran 66 source form. 
• We will also study LAPACK, a successor to LINPACK.
• Another package of possible use to us is 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.
• 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, and can be viewed from graphics terminals. 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 to download a zip file with the MS-Windows version of GNUPLOT.

Tutorials on makefiles

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