Text: Text is Granville Sewell's "Computational Methods of Linear Algebra" (John Wiley & Sons, 2005). MATLAB is required, student version can be obtained from The MathWorks

Course Content: Techniques in matrix computation; elimination methods, matrix decompositions, generalized inverses, orthogonalization and least squares, eigenvalue problems and singular value decomposition, iterative methods and error analysis.

Prerequisites: Math 417 or CPSC 442 or equivalent

Instructor: Granville Sewell

Office: Blocker 505B

Phone: 979-845-7137

FAX: 979-862-4190

email: sewell@neo.tamu.edu; sewell@math.tamu.edu

Grading Policy:

• Homework assignmments: 100% of your grade. Some homeworks will involve MATLAB programming. You are NOT to consult with other students on these homeworks (though you can consult with me).

Submitting Homework

Homeworks are to be received by midnight A&M time on the due date, preferably by FAX (979-862-4190, but see below*) but e-mail (PDF, Word or PS file to sewell@math.tamu.edu; PDF file if possible) is also acceptable. For problems requiring MATLAB, don't send me your MATLAB *.m files, I'm not planning to test them myself, just include a listing of these *.m files and their output (you can use "diary" to save output in MATLAB). The fewer files the better, if you send by e-mail.

*alternate FAX is 979-845-6028, but use this only in emergencies, and send me an e-mail to let me know that you have FAXed your HW to the alternate number

Q-drop deadline is June 18

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