
Courses Mathematics Statistical Inference 18.441 Statistical Inference Spring 2002 The leverage quantifies the potential influence of a response variable on the slope of the least-squares line, as a function of a predictor variable.It is the square

Courses Mathematics Combinatorial Optimization 18.433 Combinatorial Optimization Fall 2003 One cycle of the ellipsoid algorithm.(Image by Prof. Santosh Vempala.) Course Highlights This course includes a full set of lecture notes , plus problems set

Courses Mathematics Error-Correcting Codes Laboratory 18.413 Error-Correcting Codes Laboratory Spring 2004 Graph of density evolution of LDPC code on BEC. (Image courtesy ofProf. Daniel Spielman.) Course Highlights This course includes extensive le

Courses Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Automata, Computability, and Complexity Email this page 6.045J / 18.400J Automata, Computability, and Complexity Spring 2005 An NP completeness problem. Does P equal NP? is one of the most impo

Courses Nuclear Science and Engineering Introduction to Modeling and Simulation Email this page 22.00J / 1.021J / 2.030J / 3.021J / 10.333J / 18.361J / HST.558J Introduction to Modeling and Simulation Spring 2006 Mechanics of single crystals of

Courses Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences Nonlinear Dynamics I: Chaos Email this page 12.006J / 18.353J / 2.050J Nonlinear Dynamics I: Chaos Fall 2006 A projection of the three-dimensional Lorenz attractor. (Image courtesy of Wikipedia

Courses Mathematics Applied Parallel Computing (SMA 5505) 18.337J / 6.338J Applied Parallel Computing (SMA 5505) Spring 2005 The photo represents an example of parallel computing. The Beowulf project consists of one front end and nine computers, re

Courses Mathematics Introduction to Numerical Analysis 18.330 Introduction to Numerical Analysis Spring 2004 One e=0.6 Kepler Orbit. (Imageby Professor Alar Toomre.) Course Highlights Perhaps the most remarkable feature of this course was that, onc

