Welcome to Numerical Methods with Scilab Programming Course

Hi everyone.

Do you know that our everyday life has problems involving mathematics?

For example, finding daily traveling hours, finding electricity consumed in a week or year, finding the entry fees of adults and children visiting places, and many more.

What are some mathematics problems?

Some of the mathematics problems are problems involving systems of linear and nonlinear equations, polynomial, differentiation, integration, and initial value problems.

You have studied all these topics before. For instance, to find the solution involving a two-dimensional linear system, you can use an inverse matrix or elementary row operations. This approach is also known as the analytical approach or finding the exact solution.

But how about problems, where the exact solution is hard to find.

For example, if you need to solve 5 dimensions or more systems of linear equations or systems of nonlinear equations?

You need to find another method to solve hard problems.

In this course, you are going to learn some numerical methods to find the solution.

Numerical methods are an approach to solving mathematical or physical equations using the help of mathematics software.

I am Dr. Annie Gorgey and I am looking forward to having you all in my course.