Readings for Week 4.
Key:
Ell = Randy Ellis,
Scientific Computing
Notes
Rec = Gerald
Recktenwald, Numerical Methods with
Matlab
Class 26 in Ell
is on Gaussian elimination, and class 27 is on pivoting. Class 29 of Ell
discusses LU
decomposition.
Chapter
7 in Rec is a review of linear algebra. This week you should read section 7.1 ,
7.2 (7.2.4 vector norms will be on next weeks reading list and I will discuss it
in class, so you can skip 7.2.4 for now.) 7.3.4, 7.3.5, 7.4.1, 7.4.2, 7.4.3.
Sections 7.4.3 - 7.4.8 cover special types of matrices. It wouldn't hurt to read
about these. I don't think we deal with positive definite matrices or orthogonal
matrices. Of these special matrices we will look at permutation matrices when we
do LUP decomposition, and tridiagonal matrices when we do cubic splines.
Most of this should
be a review of the linear algebra you have already taken. I will not be actively
lecturing on these topics, rather the expectation is that you can brush up on
this material on your
own.
Chapter 8 in Rec
covers Gaussian elimination and LU decomposition. This week read 8.1 8.2 and
8.4.1. This is the material I will lecture on next week.
Posted: Thu - September 28, 2006 at 02:03 PM