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1 Thegeometryoflinear equations Eliminationwithmatrices Matrixoperationsand inverses LUandLDUfactorization Transposesandpermutations Vectorspacesandsubspaces Thenullspace:SolvingAx=0 RectangularPA=LUandAx =b Rowreducedechelonform Basisanddimension Thefourfundamental subspaces Exam1:Chapters1to3.4 Graphsandnetworks Orthogonality Projectionsandsubspaces Leastsquaresapproximations GramSchmidtandA =QR Propertiesofdeterminants Formulasfordeterminants Applicationsofdeterminants Eigenvaluesandeigenvectors Diagonalization Markovmatrices Reviewforexam2 Exam2:Chapters15,6.1 6.2,8.2 Differentialequations Symmetricmatrices Positivedefinitematrices 1.12.1 2.22.3 2.42.5 2.6 2.7 3.1 3.2 3.33.4 3.33.4 3.5 3.6 8.2 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 5.1 5.2 5.3 6.1 6.2 8.3 6.3 6.4 6.5

Thereadingsareassignedin: Strang,Gilbert.IntroductiontoLinearAlgebra.4thed.Wellesley,MA:WellesleyCambridgePress, February2009.ISBN:9780980232714.TheTableofContentsislistedbelow.

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TableofContents
1.IntroductiontoVectors
1.1VectorsandLinearCombinations 1.2LengthsandDotProducts 1.3Matrices

2.SolvingLinearEquations
2.1VectorsandLinearEquations 2.2TheIdeaofElimination 2.3EliminationUsingMatrices 2.4RulesforMatrixOperations 2.5InverseMatrices 2.6Elimination=Factorization:A=LU 2.7TransposesandPermutations

3.VectorSpacesandSubspaces
3.1SpacesofVectors 3.2TheNullspaceofA:SolvingAx=0 3.3TheRankandtheRowReducedForm 3.4TheCompleteSolutiontoAx=b 3.5Independence,Basis,andDimension 3.6DimensionsoftheFourSubspaces

4.Orthogonality
4.1OrthogonalityoftheFourSubspaces 4.2Projections 4.3LeastSquaresApproximations 4.4OrthogonalBasesandGramSchmidt

5.Determinants
5.1ThePropertiesofDeterminants 5.2PermutationsandCofactors 5.3Cramer'sRule,Inverses,andVolumes

6.EigenvaluesandEigenvectors
6.1IntroductiontoEigenvalues 6.2DiagonalizingaMatrix 6.3ApplicationstoDifferentialEquations 6.4SymmetricMatrices 6.5PositiveDefiniteMatrices 6.6SimilarMatrices 6.7SingularValueDecomposition(SVD)

7.LinearTransformations
7.1TheIdeaofaLinearTransformation 7.2TheMatrixofaLinearTransformation 7.3DiagonalizationandthePseudoinverse

8.Applications
8.1MatricesinEngineering 8.2GraphsandNetworks 8.3MarkovMatrices,Population,andEconomics 8.4LinearProgramming 8.5FourierSeries:LinearAlgebraforFunctions 8.6LinearAlgebraforStatisticsandProbability 8.7ComputerGraphics

9.NumericalLinearAlgebra

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9.1GaussianEliminationinPractice 9.2NormsandConditionNumbers 9.3IterativeMethodsandPreconditioners

10.ComplexVectorsandComplexMatrices
10.1ComplexNumbers 10.2HermitianandUnitaryMatrices 10.3TheFastFourierTransform

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