A computer language such as Fortran or C will need to be acquired along with the course if you do not already know one. A personal computer would be heavily used, but an account on the physics departmental machines is adequate for the course. Many homework assignments in the form of short exercises will be given and the grade will be entirely based on these. The topics below will gradually become links. References to the items that are discussed in your text are in Press et al .
General references are in References.
Integration Partition A. Trapezoidal rule CINT1 including Romberg extrapolation. Biased Selection MonteCarlo . Fourier Transform methods Fourier1 A. Convolution Convolution B. Solution of a differential equation in transform space. Jacobi jacobi2 V. Optimization A. Gauss-Jordan GaussJ.htm , and cholesky matrix inversion. A few programming and matrix techniques will be needed to get through this list.