Computers and Numerical Algorithms (Math 248)



Welcome! This is a course webpage for Math 248 (Sections 0001 and 0002), Spring 2026 taught at James Madison University.

  • Draft Syllabus (Class and university policy, grading, class schedule, and helpful resources)
  • Office hours: Tuesdays 14:05 - 15:05, Fridays 12:30 - 13:30, and by appointment (write an email according to Syllabus guidelines) in Roop 310.
  • A comic about roundoff error

The image for this class is from Berlin, where one of the world's first working programmable fully automatic computing machines, Z3, was invented by Konrad Zuse.

Roop Hall, Room 310

woodstzc (at) jmu (dot) edu