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** LU
** LU
* Vector Space Preliminaries
* Vector Space Preliminaries
** Definition of a vector space
** Euclidean vector spaces
** Span
** Span
** linear independence
** linear independence
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** dimension
** dimension
** geometric examples
** geometric examples
* Euclidean vector spaces
* Linear transformations
* Linear transformations
** Matrix of a linear transformation
** Geometric transformations
* Applications
* Applications
** Adjacency matrix
** Adjacency matrix

Revision as of 18:10, 23 June 2011

Preliminary Topic List

  • Vectors
    • Geometric objects - lines and planes
    • Dot product
    • Projection
    • Orthogonal decomposition
  • Systems of equations and elimination
    • Free variables
    • Consistency of solutions
    • Gaussian elimination
  • Matrix operations and algebra
    • Matrix arithmetic
    • Matrix inverse
    • Determinant
    • Elementary Matrices
    • LU
  • Vector Space Preliminaries
    • Definition of a vector space
    • Euclidean vector spaces
    • Span
    • linear independence
    • basis and orthogonal basis
    • row space
    • column space
    • null space
    • dimension
    • geometric examples
  • Linear transformations
    • Matrix of a linear transformation
    • Geometric transformations
  • Applications
    • Adjacency matrix
    • Least squares
    • Curve/surface fitting
    • Mixture problems
    • Simplex method
    • Graph theory
  • Eigenvalues and eigenvectors
  • Inner product spaces and abstract vector spaces