Office: LGRT, 1324
Phone: (413) 545-2817
Office Hours: Tu 2:30-3:30, W 4:00-5:00
Email: johnston@math.umass.edu
Course description:
See the syllabus
Textbook:
Numerical Linear Algebra , by Trefethen & Bau (SIAM, 1997)
Additional References:
Access to MATLAB at UMass: Here is a link to the
OIT Computer Classrooms website.
MATLAB Help: Here are four (4) PDF files and two (2) links for help
using MATLAB.
| 1/31/06 | First day of class. Read leactures 1-3 in the book. |
| 2/7/06: | Lectures 1 & 2. Assigned HW #1 , due 2/16/06. |
| 2/9/06: | Orthogonality. Here are the M-files: hw1_p7.m , trilu.m , trilu_solve.m |
| 2/16/06: | Norms. Assigned HW #2 , due 2/28/06. |
| 3/2/06: | SVD. Assigned HW #3 , due 3/14/06. |
| 3/14/06: | QR factorization. Assigned HW #4 , due 3/30/06. |
| 3/28/06: | Householder triangularization |
| 4/20/06: | Condition number and Stability. Assigned HW #5 , due 5/2/06. |
Homework Solutions: