Math 694 Numerical Linear Algebra

Spring 2009, Ed Bueler

Ed Bueler: felb@uaf.edu, x7693
Office: Chapman 301C (Hours)
Class time: MWF 2:15--3:15pm  Classroom: Chapman 107
Text: Trefethen and Bau, Numerical Linear Algebra, SIAM Press 1997.

Syllabus and Advertisement

PARTS OF COURSE:
A
matrix/vector manipulations
B
geometric linear algebra
C
abstract linear algebra
D
QR factorization and least squares
E
conditioning and stability
F
systems of equations
G
computing eigenvalues
H
iterative methods

MATLAB/Octave/Python CODES:

LINKS:
Other important books:
  • Golub & van Loan, Matrix Computations
  • Demmel, Applied Numerical Linear Algebra
  • Higham, Accuracy and Stability of Numerical Algorithms
  • Strang, Linear Algebra and Its Applications
  • Roman, Advanced Linear Algebra
  • Moler, Numerical Computing with MATLAB
  • Cheney & Kincaid, Numerical Mathematics and Computing
  • Press et al, Numerical Recipes in C|Fortran

 Schedule:  (version 5/9/09)

Part

Day

Lecture
(in text)
Topic
Assigned or Due
(links are PDF)
C
1/23 Fri

introduction, matrices, vector spaces and examples
A #1 (includes proof advice) (PDF)

Matlab/Octave/Pylab comparison handout (PDF)
C
1/26 Mon
1
bases, linear maps, matrices
C, A
1/28 Wed
1
matrix-vector multiplication, matrix product
C, A
1/30 Fri
2
inner product, adjoint, hermitian, orthogonal, unitary A # 1 Due
A #1 solutions (PDF)
A #2 (PDF)
A
2/2 Mon
2
cont.

B
2/4 Wed
2
cont.

B
2/6 Fri
3
norms of vectors and matrices
B
2/9 Mon
3
cont.
A # 2 Due
B
2/11 Wed
4
the singular value decomposition A #3 (PDF)
B
2/13 Fri
4
cont

B
2/16 Mon
5
cont

B
2/18 Wed
5
compression of images A # 3 Due
B
2/20 Fri
6
projectors A #4 (PDF)
B
2/23 Mon
6
cont

B
2/25 Wed
6
cont

D
2/27 Fri
7
Gram-Schmidt process and QR factorization A # 4 Due
REVISED A #5 (PDF)
D
3/2 Mon
8
modified Gram-Schmidt/operation count
D
3/4 Wed
10
Householder triangularization
D
3/6 Fri
10,11
cont;  least squares
D
3/9-3/13

SPRING BREAK

D
3/16 Mon
11
least squares (by QR, QVD and Cholesky) A # 5 Due
E
3/18 Wed
12
conditioning
A #6 (PDF)
E
3/20 Fri
12
cont

E
3/23 Mon
13
floating point arithmetic
review notes (PDF)

3/25 Wed

MIDTERM QUIZ: Wednesday in class
quiz itself
solutions
E
3/27 Fri
13
cont

E
3/30 Mon
14
stability and backward stability A # 6 Due
E
4/1 Wed
15
cont

E
4/3 Fri
16,17,19 stability of: Householder, back sub, least squares A #7 (PDF)
E
4/6 Mon

cont

F
4/8 Wed
20
Gauss elimination
F
4/10 Fri
21
w. partial pivoting
in class example: partialpivot_lu.txt
A # 7 Due
F
4/13 Mon
22, 23 stability of Gauss elimination, Cholesky
in class example: bad_lu.txt

F
4/15 Wed

cont
A #8 (PDF)
G
4/17 Fri
24
eigenvalues, Schur decomposition, spectral theorem
G
4/20 Mon
cont

G
4/22 Wed
25
eigenvalue algorithms

G
4/24 Fri

springfest, no class

G
4/27 Mon 26
reduction to Hessenberg/tridiagonal
[see in-class codes in list at left]
A # 8 Due
H
4/29 Wed
28
inverse and Rayleigh iteration for eigenvalues of matrices FINAL EXAM (PDF)
H
5/1 Fri

Krylov ideas: how to solve really large Ax=b

H
5/4 Mon



5/7 Thurs

FINAL EXAM (PDF)
take home; due Thursday May 7, 5pm at my office box

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