Math 3200: Applied Linear Algebra
Announcements
· The
Final Exam is on Thursday, December 11 at 10:10 am. The exam is comprehensive.
Closed book, closed notes, one sheet of reminders is allowed.
· Test
3 is on Thursday, November 20 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 Thursday, Oct. 16 at class time. It will cover chapters 4, 5 of the textbook. The test is closed book, closed notes.
·
Test 1 is on Thursday, 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
· 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)
· Links to student projects in
Optimization
· Operations
Research (includes Optimization) among best Technology 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