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***This is a course guideline. Students should contact instructor for the updated information on current course syllabus, textbooks, and course content***

Prerequisites: MATH 2318, or equivalent, and six additional hours of 3000—4000 level Mathematics.

Course Description: Conditioning and stability of linear systems, matrix factorizations, direct and iterative methods for solving linear systems, computing eigenvalues and eigenvectors, introduction to linear and nonlinear optimization.

Textbooks:

• Introduction to Applied Linear Algebra Vectors, Matrices, and Least Squares, by S. Boyd (Stanford) and L. Vandenberghe (UCLA). ISBN: 978-1316518960.
• Matrix Factorizations, Iterative Methods, Minimization, a class note by L. Vandenberghe (UCLA).

Course Content:

Conditioning and stability of linear systems, matrix factorizations, direct and iter- ative methods for solving linear systems, computing eigenvalues and eigenvectors, introduction to linear and nonlinear optimization.

• Introduction; Vectors
• Norm, distance, angle
• Matrices
• Matrix inverses
• Orthogonal matrices
• QR factorization
• Linear equations
• Least squares
• Least squares applications
• Multi-objective least squares
• Constrained least squares
• Cholesky factorization
• Nonlinear least squares

Course Structure and Grading Policies: Please consult your instructor's syllabus regarding any and all grading/course structure guidelines.

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