Lectures

Lecture 1: Computation as a tool for discovery in physics

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• Real numbers and numerical precision
• Computational complexity for physicists

Lecture 2: Numerical methods for ordinary differential equations

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• C. Moler, Numerical Computing with Matlab (SIAM, Philadelphia, 2004).
• W. H. Press, S. A. Teukolsky, W. T. Vetterling, and B. P. Flannery: Numerical Recipes: The Art of Scientific Computing (CUP, Cambridge, 2007).

Lecture 3: Introduction to deterministic chaos

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• T. Tél and M. Gruiz, Chaotic Dynamics (CUP, Cambridge, 2006).

Lecture 5: Vibrational eigenmodes: From glasses to Fermi-Pasta-Ulam Problem

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Lecture 6: Introduction to Fourier analysis

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