Numerical Methods Qualification Exam Problems and Solutions (University of Maryland)

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This is a compilation of problems and solutions from past numerical methods qualifying exams at the University of Maryland.

Revision to solutions and alternate solutions are welcome.

Practice Problems and Solutions

[edit] Old Exams

Scanned pdf copies of past Numerical Analysis exams may be found here

http://www.math.umd.edu/graduate/quals/NumericalAnalysis

[edit] AMSC666 Problems

[edit] AMSC667 Problems

[edit] Questions

• Is there a more succinct or rigorous way to explain August_2006#Solution_2c

[edit] Target Problems for Aug 09 Qual

We will focus on the following problems for the Aug 2009 qual since we covered these topics in AMSC666/AMSC667 during the previous year (08-09).

[edit] AMSC 666 problems

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• Aug 01: missing test
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[edit] AMSC 667 problems

All problems in scanned copies.