UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICS

Math 8401/2: Mathematical Modelling and Methods Of Applied Mathematics

Fall 2005/Spring 2006

Instructor: Fernando Reitich.
Office: VinH538, Telephone: 626-1324, E-mail: reitich@math.umn.edu
Text: Mathematics Applied to Deterministic Problems in the Natural Sciences (Third Printing, 1994), C. C. Lin and L. A. Segel.
Classes: MWF 09:05-09:55am, VinH 209. (Spring 2006)


ASSIGNMENTS FROM THE TEXTBOOK
Assignment # Due Date Sections/Topics Problems (Chapter.Section.Exercise Nr)
1 10/3 2.1
ODEs
2.1.2, 2.1.3
Handout 1
2 10/31 2.2
7.2
7.2
2.2.6, 2.2.7, 2.2.9
7.2.1, 7.2.2, 7.2.10
7.2.11, 7.2.12, 7.2.13
3 11/14 6.1
6.2
6.3
9.2
6.1.2
6.2.2, 6.2.7
6.3.8, 6.3.9
9.2.2, 9.2.5, 9.2.6
4 12/5 3.1
3.2
3.3
3.4
3.1.3(a), 3.1.3(b), 3.1.4
3.2.8
3.3.1, 3.3.9
3.4.5, 3.4.9, 3.4.10
5 2/6/2006 4.1
4.2
4.3
5.3
4.1.4, 4.1.6, 4.1.7
4.2.5
4.3.8, 4.3.11, 4.3.12
5.3.1, 5.3.2, 5.3.3
6 2/27 The Heat Equation
Electrostatics
Potential Theory
Handout 2
7 3/27 Potential Theory
Integral Equations
Handout 3
8 4/24 Calculus of Variations
Hilbert Spaces
Sobolev Spaces
The Ritz-Galerkin Method
Handout 4



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