George Washington University is launching a groundbreaking example of inter-institutional collaboration in open education through a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) entitled “Practical Numerical ...

to illustrate the broad applicability of numerical methods. Students will be expected to complete ... fortran, Java, BASIC, or Python.

The only accessible method was to create a calculation using a spreadsheet. But even then, students had to have access to Excel or something like that. But it's not 1995 any more. Numerical ...

However, for all but the simplest devices these equations are typically too complex to permit closed-form solutions. Numerical methods are thus both essential and powerful for predicting the ...