Rutgers Math 642:550
Linear Algebra and Applications
Fall 2006

Announcements

This semester the course will use Sakai for general course support. All registered students should be members of the course site.

The first Matlab project is ready. Retrieve it from the Course materials section here or from the Sakai site.

Course Materials for this semester

• General Course Information
• Course Syllabus
• Homework Exercises
• Notes about MATLAB assignments
• MATLAB Teaching Codes (m-files that are used in the MATLAB assignments)
• MATLAB RTB Teaching Codes (m-files that are used in MATLAB assignment number 4, written by RTBumby)
• MATLAB Codes by Cleve B. Moler (m-files from Moler's book (S.I.A.M., 2004, ISBN 0-89871-560-1) Numerical Computing with MATLAB)
• MATLAB Assignment 1
• MATLAB Assignment 2
• MATLAB Assignment 3
• MATLAB Assignment 4
• MATLAB Assignment 5

Supplements

These supplements reflect the lecturer's view of some topics in the course. They are mostly minor revisions of material used in Summer 2006.

• S1: Introduction, including Intersection of Subspaces.
• S2: Sign of a Permutation.
• S3: The Cauchy-Binet Fomutation.
• S4: Finding Eigenvectors.
• S5: Matrix Exponentials.
• S6: Schur's Unitary Triangularization Theorem.
• S7: A robust method for finding characteristic polynomials.

Related Material

• Home Page of M.I.T. Linear Algebra Course
• ATLAST Project Home Page (MATLAB in Teaching Linear Algebra)
• Other Web resources for MATLAB
• Notes from another instructor on an alternate approach to the LU factorization.
• Course Page from Summer 2006 with links to supplements elaborating on some topics from the second half of the course. Some of these will be edited for use this semester, but all are relevant.

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