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Brief review of topics in elementary numerical analysis such as floating-point arithmetic, Gaussian elimination for linear equations, inter-polation and approximation. Core topics to be covered: numerical linear algebra including eigenvalue and linear least-squares problems, iterative algorithms for nonlinear equations and least squares problems, and convergence theory of numerical methods. Other possible topics: sparse matrix computations, numerical solution of partial differential equations, finite element methods, and parallel algorithms.