Partial Differential Equations - Online course?

[weepingwillow]

I see there have been a few posts here aobut taking PDE online.
I really am so busy I don't have the time to take it near me, on campus.
Is there any current online course/uni that offers it? I know Stanford does.
I called Michigan Tech, whose offered it in the past, but unfortunately won't offer it for another year :-(

Just curious.

 

[Bid Shader]

http://www.athabascau.ca/syllabi/math/math476.php

 

[weepingwillow]

Thanks for the link above.
Never head of the school, has anyone taken the class there?
Is it reputable?

 

[Bid Shader]

It's reputable in the sense that any Canadian Univ would accept undergraduate credits taken there for transfer credit. Internationally, I doubt anyone would have heard of it.

A friend took Calc 1 & 2 there, and it was as usual for Canadian undergraduate programs - taught from Stewarts book with the usual coverage.

That's all I know.

 

[Daniel Duffy]

http://www.athabascau.ca/syllabi/math/math476.php

At first glance this PDE course is missing topics that are needed in computational finance.

An important (vital) pde is convection-diffusion-reaction and its numerical approximation. Aka Black-Scholes PDE.

 

[Nestor Carbayo]

I took www.cvn.columbia.edu/content/coursereview?course=APMA%20E4200&sem=A15 in fall 2013.

I see there have been a few posts here aobut taking PDE online.
I really am so busy I don't have the time to take it near me, on campus.
Is there any current online course/uni that offers it? I know Stanford does.
I called Michigan Tech, whose offered it in the past, but unfortunately won't offer it for another year :-(

Just curious.

 

[Tianjing Huang]

I took www.cvn.columbia.edu/content/coursereview?course=APMA%20E4200&sem=A15 in fall 2013.

Hi I just want to know is this course open to student outside of Columbia University. If so, could you please tell me how to apply for it. I would really appreciate it.

 

[Daniel Duffy]

Hi I just want to know is this course open to student outside of Columbia University. If so, could you please tell me how to apply for it. I would really appreciate it.

Does the course have a syllabus? I was unable to find one..

 

[Walt]

Yes it is open, apply at: Online Degrees | Columbia University Engineering as a Non-Degree application

 

[Daniel Duffy]

Yes it is open, apply at: Online Degrees | Columbia University Engineering as a Non-Degree application

Before applying, I would like to see the syllabus first :D

The site seems to do its best not to give the info!

 

[bigbadwolf]

Before applying, I would like to see the syllabus first :D

The site seems to do its best not to give the info!

We don't needs no stinkin' syllabus. We pays our money and gets our "A" grade.

 

[Daniel Duffy]

We don't needs no stinkin' syllabus. We pays our money and gets our "A" grade.

Sorry, my bad. I sure hope they do Burgers' equation.

I know what PDEs does to men's souls.

 

[bigbadwolf]

Sorry, my bad. I sure hope they do Burgers' equation.

I know what PDEs does to men's souls.

Tis but a trifling detail. I've been looking at these online math courses ever since you mentioned there was no syllabus for the PDE course. None I've looked at so far have given a syllabus. They are very anxious, however, to get your email and contact details. It seems they're in the business of selling credentials, with the pitch being -- accompanied by pictures of smiling stress-free "students" with books cradled in their arms -- that the credential will get you that corner office. But studying PDEs, and indeed studying anything mathematical, induces stress and is a hard slog.

 

[Daniel Duffy]

Tis but a trifling detail. I've been looking at these online math courses ever since you mentioned there was no syllabus for the PDE course. None I've looked at so far have given a syllabus. They are very anxious, however, to get your email and contact details. It seems they're in the business of selling credentials, with the pitch being -- accompanied by pictures of smiling stress-free "students" with books cradled in their arms -- that the credential will get you that corner office. But studying PDEs, and indeed studying anything mathematical, induces stress and is a hard slog.

Yeah, I clicked on the links and then all of a sudden on Linkedin, requesting me to pay 200 bucks for some reason. Then I got an email.

How is that possible?

 

[bigbadwolf]

Yeah, I clicked on the links and then all of a sudden on Linkedin, requesting me to pay 200 bucks for some reason. Then I got an email.

How is that possible?

LinkedIn is a vile instrument of this neoliberal age.

 

[Levi McClenny]

LinkedIn is a vile instrument of this neoliberal age.

Glad other people feel this way. I cant stand LinkedIn.

From our friend Google:
https://web.cvn.columbia.edu/www4/PDE_Syllabus_S10.pdf

Its a few years old so the info might have changed but at least here's an idea of the topics. The professor is also different so this might be to far out of date to trust.

 

[bigbadwolf]

From our friend Google:
https://web.cvn.columbia.edu/www4/PDE_Syllabus_S10.pdf

Its a few years old so the info might have changed but at least here's an idea of the topics. The professor is also different so this might be to far out of date to trust.

That's a respectable first course in PDE.

 

[Daniel Duffy]

Glad other people feel this way. I cant stand LinkedIn.

From our friend Google:
https://web.cvn.columbia.edu/www4/PDE_Syllabus_S10.pdf

Its a few years old so the info might have changed but at least here's an idea of the topics. The professor is also different so this might be to far out of date to trust.

Thanks for the syllabus

The content was (is?) 1st/2nd year math undergraduate and not very original to be honest. It's fairly standard textbook stuff. Most of is interesting of course and essential. *However* I would like to see more:


. It misses out on more interesting PDEs and methods.
. No numerical PDEs and discrete approximations.
. Separation of variables is next to useless in real life.
. The PDEs are linear and no mention of convection-diffusion (like Black Scholes).

my 2 cents

 

[Daniel Duffy]

Out of curiosity, what does the course cost?

From our friend Google:

LOL, but does the original link have the syllabus?

 

[Levi McClenny]

That's a respectable first course in PDE.

I thought so as well.

However, this syllabus is a few years old so who knows how it is now. Could be worth a shot though.