Daily Log

Daily topics and PDFs (handouts and worksheets) will appear here as they occur. Note that our textbook by Trefethen and Bau (=T&B) is organized by Lectures. See also the Schedule. You do not have to turn-in any handout or worksheet!

• Monday 15 September:
  singular value decomposition (SVD)! (Lecture 4 in T&B)
• Wednesday 10 September:
  induced matrix norms
  handout: matrix norm essentials (PDF)
  article in Danish on Piet Hein, including Sergels plaza in Stockholm
• Monday 8 September:
  vector norms (Lecture 3 in T&B)
• Friday 5 September:
  unitary matrices
• Wednesday 3 September:
  inner products, orthogonality, adjoints (Lecture 2 in T&B)
• Friday 29 Aug:
  matrix multiplication, invertible matrices, Matlab intro
• Wednesday 27 Aug:
  thinking matrix multiplication (Lecture 1 in T&B)
  example Matlab/Octave, Python, Julia codes, and PDF documentation (in .zip)
• Monday 25 Aug:
  getting started
  worksheet: visualize vectors and matrices (PDF)