MTH 451 Class Notes

MTH 451 Class Notes

I follow Trefethen and Bau's book. However, some material comes from Demmel's linear algebra book.
There is no point in just retelling Trefethen; the notes have introductory material to many
of the subjects discussed in Trefethen's book. This provides an air of complementarity and value to these notes.
These notes are a record of what was covered in class. The notes are posted within 2 days of the lecture.


There are some key computational demos at the end of this page
(and there are many more on the resource page). Students tend to dismiss these demos.
You should not. Take the time to download and run them and do so while at the same time looking
at the code.

Below is a complete list of class lectures.
The 451 sequence for Summer 2020 is constructed from a subset of these:
Class 1-11, 13-18, 21-24.


Class 1 Class 2 Class 3
Class 4
Class 5 Class 6
Class 7 Class 8 Class 9
Class 10 Class 11 Class 12
Class 13 Class 14 Class 15
Class 16 Class 17 Class 18
Class 19 Class 20 Class 21
Class 22 Class 23 Class 24


These class lectures cover the "Lectures" numbered 1-14, 20-28 of Trefethen and Bau's book.



MTH 341 Notes

Linear Algebra I class notes, following Lay's Linear Algebra book.

MTH 342 Notes

Linear Algebra II class notes, following Axler's Linear Algebra Done Right book.
A Gram Schmidt Illustration using matlab
A least squares matlab example
A simple and explicit A=QR factorization example
SVD and further computational examples are found the resource page.
A code that shows how poorly conditioned polynomial interpolation can get.
and and . Lecture19 from Trefethen and Bau, as a matlab mlx file. Download and run in matlab.
A fixed point iteration example, problem 1. Anpther fixed point iteration example, problem 2.
A code that shows how Newton rootfinding is performed (the compressed/tar file contains 3 files needed for the demo.
Conjugate gradient codes.