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Schedule

  • Class: Tu, Th, 9:00am - 10:15am, Room 550-550A
  • Review session: Fridays, 4:15 - 5:05pm, Hewlett 102
  • Homework due: Wednesdays, 5pm. Submit it to the filing cabinet outside Durand 261

Review session

  • Usually: Fridays, 4:15 - 5:05pm, Hewlett 102

Sanjay's office hours

  • Usually: Mondays, 2:30 - 3:30 and Tuesdays, 3:00 - 5:00
  • Except 6/2

Mayank's office hours

  • Usually: Mondays, 3:15 - 5:15, Packard 104
  • Extra office hours:Wed 5/28, 5:00 - 7:00, Durand 393

Debarshi's office hours

  • Usually:Tuesdays, 5:00 - 7:00, Packard 104

Lecture Notes

Extra Notes

Homework

Support notes

  • 1. Matrix primer notes (pdf)
  • 1a. Matrix primer lecture 1 (pdf)
  • 1b. Matrix primer lecture 2 (pdf)
  • 1c. Matrix primer lecture 3 (pdf)
  • 2. Crimes against matrices (pdf)
  • 3. Basic notation (pdf)
  • 4. Least squares and least norm solutions using Matlab (pdf)
  • 5. Solving general linear equations using Matlab (pdf)
  • 6. Low rank approximation and extremal gain problems (pdf)

Course info

  • Grading will be roughly: homework 15%, midterm 40%, final 45%.
  • There is no required textbook. Many textbooks will work are a reference or auxillary text, such as:
    • Linear Algebra and its Applications, or the newer book Introduction to Linear Algebra, G. Strang.
    • Introduction to Dynamic Systems, Luenberger, Wiley.

Matlab