Instructors:    Araceli M. Bonifant   Office: Math Tower 4-107 Phone: 632-8275 Email: bonifant@math.sunysb.edu

Moira Chas   Office: Math Tower 4-120 Phone: 632-8278 Email: moira@math.sunysb.edu

Office Hours: Tuesday, Thursday.

About the course:
After a quick and general introduction to Maple (a mathematics computer program) we will look at several ways of approximating the data obtained from some experiment. We will study the Least Squares-Method and Polynomial Interpolation. At the end of the project the students will be asked to fit a line to some data in three different ways.

Note: No experience with computers is needed.

Project:  The project that will be given in this class is the first of the projects assigned to students of Mat 331:Mathematical Problem Solving with Computers.

Click here to go over the classes and find the DATA for your final project. YOUR DATA is UNDER YOUR FIRST NAME. Example: If your first name is Jen, your data is Jen.txt

Bibliography

Notes for Mat331 Mathematical Problem Solving with Computers, by Santiago Simanca and Scott Sutherland, Summer 2002 edition. (First and second chapters)