Math 520 is a graduate level introduction to the essentials of scientific computation.
The course is based on the variational approach which offers a number of advantages. In particular,
a significant amount of time is spent on the Finite Element Method which is variational in nature.

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The course is designed with Engineers in mind however, being an introductory course, it is also appropriate
for students from all fields including Mathematics and Computer Science. In order to succeed in the 
cource you must be comfortable with the fundamentals of Linear Algebra and Multrivariate Calculus.

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<b>This course is all about implementation!</b> We introduce a number of tools and adhere to the 
philosophy different problems call for different tools. Where appropriate we use Excel, for more
complicated problems - Matlab; when Matlab is insufficient - which is rare in this course - we use C/C++.