13 Feb
2020
13 Feb
'20
5:05 a.m.
On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 04:45:54PM -0600, Charles H Sauer wrote:
If I recall correctly:
- all doctoral candidates ended up taking two semesters of numerical
analysis. I still have two volume n.a. text in the attic (orange, but not
"burnt orange", IIRC).
- numerical analysis was covered on the doctoral qualifying exam.
Pretty sure Madison required that stuff for Masters degrees. Or maybe
undergrad, I feel like I took that stuff pretty early on.
I'm very systems oriented so I can't imagine I would have taking that
willingly. I hate the whole idea of floating point, just seems so
error prone.