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MATH 270AMathematical Aspects of Scientific Computing: Techniques of Scientific Computing

Mathematics · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)

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Mathematical modeling for computer applications, scientific programming languages, software development, graphics, implementation of numerical algorithms on different architectures, case studies.

S/U or letter grading.

When it runs

  • Spring 2026

Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.

Requisites

Official UCLA wording

Requisites: courses 115A, 151A, 151B, Program in Computing 10A.

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  • MATH 115A
  • MATH 151A
  • MATH 151B
  • COMPTNG 10A

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MATH 270A

  • MATH 115ALinear Algebra
    • MATH 33ALinear Algebra and Applications
      • MATH 3BCalculus for Life Sciences Students1 more beneath
      • MATH 31BIntegration and Infinite Seriesanother path to it
      • MATH 32ACalculus of Several Variablesanother path to it
  • MATH 151AApplied Numerical Methods
    • MATH 32BCalculus of Several Variables
      • MATH 31BIntegration and Infinite Series1 more beneath
      • MATH 32ACalculus of Several Variables1 more beneath
    • MATH 33BDifferential Equations
      • MATH 31BIntegration and Infinite Seriesanother path to it
    • COM SCI 31Introduction to Computer Science I
    • MATH 115ALinear Algebraanother path to it
    • COMPTNG 10AIntroduction to Programminganother path to it
  • COMPTNG 10AIntroduction to Programming
  • MATH 151BApplied Numerical Methods
    • MATH 151AApplied Numerical Methodsanother path to it

4 direct requisites. Showing 17 courses over 3 levels; the branches marked with a count carry on past it. Every course here opens its own tree.

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