Math 3200/5200: Applied Linear Algebra
· The Final Exam is on Monday, December 9 at 10:10 am.
The exam is comprehensive. Closed book, closed notes, one sheet of reminders is
allowed.
· Test 3 is on Friday, November 22 at class time. It
will cover Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors (Chapter 6), Markov Chains (Sections 1.1,
1.6, 6.3, 9.4), and Real Inner Products (Sections 10.1-10.3). The test is
closed book, closed notes.
· Test 2 is on Monday, October 21 at
class time. It will cover chapters 4, 5 of the textbook.
The test is closed book, closed notes.
· Test 1 is on Wednesday, Sept. 18 at
class time. It will cover Chapters 1, 2, 3 of the textbook.
The test is closed book, closed notes.
Class Materials
Links to online rooms
Linear Algebra links
·
History
of matrices
·
Online matrix calculator
· Linear Optimization
with Applications
· John Mitchell's Optimization
Pointers
· Applications
of Linear Programming in Civil and Environmental Systems Engineering
· Optimization
of cable robots (application in Mechanical Engineering)
· Applications
of Linear Programming (includes applications in Finance, Scheduling,
Chemical Engineering)
· Operations
Research (includes Optimization) among best STEM jobs
· Top ten algorithms
of the 20th century
·
Determinants (from
Wikipedia)
· Determinants and
their applications (powerpoint slides)
· Applications
of determinants (area of a triangle, etc.)
· Unimodular and totally
unimodular matrices
·
Linear
Transformation Matrices
· Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors
· Applications
of Matrices in Computer Graphics
· Eigen decomposition
of matrices
· Markov
Chains (chapter from another
textbook)
· Markov
Chains and applications in Genome Search (powerpoint
slides)
·
Solving
a regression problem by linear programming