This image comes from "A Simple Mesh Generator in MATLAB" submitted to SIAM Review. The mesh was created using the truss model in Section 2.4 of the text; color shows distance to the boundary. (Image courtesy of Per-Olof Persson.)
Instructor(s)
Prof. Gilbert Strang
MIT Course Number
18.085
As Taught In
Fall 2008
Level
Graduate
Course Description
Course Features
- Video lectures
- Faculty introduction - video
- Captions/transcript
- Assignments: problem sets with solutions
- Assignments: programming (no examples)
- Exams and solutions
Course Description
This course provides a review of linear algebra, including applications to networks, structures, and estimation, Lagrange multipliers. Also covered are: differential equations of equilibrium; Laplace's equation and potential flow; boundary-value problems; minimum principles and calculus of variations; Fourier series; discrete Fourier transform; convolution; and applications.
Note: This course was previously called "Mathematical Methods for Engineers I."
