Prerequisite: Calculus, linear algebra, some programming experience in FORTRAN, C, Matlab or a similar language.
Text: Numerical Linear algebra, by L.N. Trefethen and D. Bau, SIAM 1997 (referred by TB)
Other reference : Fundamentals of Matrix Computations, by D.S. Watkins, Wiley-Interscience, 2010.
Instructor: Dr. Yulong Xing Email: xingy (at) math.utk.edu
Office: 214 Ayres Hall Office
Hours: 10:30-11:20pm T, TH
Office Tel: (865) 974-4314
Class Meeting Times: T, Th 12:40 - 1:55 PM, Ayres Hall 111
Week
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01, Aug. 19.
First class
Lecture 1 of TB, Matrix-Vector multiplication
02, Aug. 26.
Lecture 2 of TB, Orthogonal vectors and matrices.
HW1
Lecture 3 of TB, Norms.
03, Sep. 02.
Lecture 3 and 4, norms, SVD
HW2
Lecture 4 and 5, SVD
04, Sep. 09.
Lecture 6, projector
HW3
Quiz 1
Lecture 6 and 7, QR algorithm
05, Sep. 16.
Lecture 7 and 8, QR and Gram-Schmidt orthogonalization
HW4
Lecture 8, Gram-Schmidt orthogonalization
06, Sep. 23.
Lecture 10, Househoulder triangulation
HW5
Prog. assignment 1
Lecture 10 and 11, Househoulder and least square problem
07, Sep. 30.
Lecture 11, Least square problem
HW6
Quiz2
Lecture 12, Condition number
08, Oct. 07.
Midterm
Fall break
09, Oct. 14.
Lecture 12 and 13, Condition number and floating point arithmetic
HW7
Lecture 13 and 14, Stability
10, Oct. 21.
Lecture 16,17,18,19, Stability
HW8
Lecture 20, Gaussian elimination
11, Oct. 28.
Lecture 21, 23, Pivoting and Cholesky factorization
HW9
Lecture 22 Stability of LU, Iterative methods
12, Nov. 04.
Jacobi, Gauss-Seidal, SOR methods and their convergence
HW10
Quiz3
Handout on iterative methods
Convergence, Descent method
13, Nov. 11.
Steepest descent method, CG method
HW11
Handout on descent and CG methods
CG method, eigenvalue problems
Prog. assignment 2
14, Nov. 18.
Lecture 24, 25, 26, 27 Eigenvalue problems
HW12
Thanksgiving holiday
15, Nov. 25.
Lecture 27, 28, 29 Rayleigh quotient, power, inverse iteration, QR algorithm
Nonlinear problem
HW13
Quiz4
16, Dec. 02.
Last class
17, Dec. 09.
Final Exam