Department of Mathematics
Kansas State University
kstate
MATH551: Applied MatrixTheory








FALL
2009



  • INSTRUCTOR: Prof.  Diego Maldonado Office hours: Mondays 2:30-4:00pm in CW238 and by appointment. E-mail: dmaldona(at)math.ksu.edu
  • Click for HELP! (Extra office hours and MATLAB help)

EXAMS SCHEDULE

All Exams in CW146
 (usual classroom)

In-class test 1: Friday, October 2nd, 1:30pm-2:20pm

In-class test 2: Friday, November 20th, 1:30pm-2:20pm

Final Exam: Wednesday, December 16th, 11:50am-1:40pm

     ASSIGNMENTS

STUDY GUIDES


SOME MATLAB LINKS


  • MATLAB Tutorials Here is a list of nice sites that will help you to get started with MATLAB and also to polish your MATLAB skills.
  • MATLAB Central - File Exchange. The MATLAB Central File Exchange contains thousands of files contributed by users and developers of MATLAB, Simulink and related products. Topics include: Aerospace, Automotive, Biotech, Chemistry and Physics, Communications, Control and Systems Modeling, Earth  Sciences, Financial  Modeling and Analysis, Games, Graphics, Image  Processing, Mathematics, Optimization, Signal  Processing, Statistics and Probability, and Test and Measurement.
  • Engineering courses/books integrating MATLAB Here you will find books and course materials posted on universities web sites that demonstrate uses of MATLAB and Simulink products for teaching and research in Mechanical, Aerospace, Chemical, and Electrical Engineering as well as in Computer Science, Earth Science, Economics and Finance, Mathematics, and Natural Sciences.


SOME APPLICATIONS OF LINEAR ALGEBRA/MATRIX THEORY


  • Matrix Decompositions/Factorizations from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The Block LU, Cholesky, Jordan, LU, polar, Proper orthogonal, QR, Schur, SVD, and Spectral decompositions are discussed.
  • Robotics A nice application of linear algebra to a basic problem in Robotics. From the British Columbia Institute of Technology, Canada.
  • The $25 Billion Eigenvector (the linear algebra behind Google) by Kurt Bryan at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology and Tanya Leise at Ahmerst College. This is the PDF version of a beautiful paper that explains one of the basic ideas behind Google's PageRank algorithm.
  • A survey of applications of linear algebra  to Abstract thinking, Chemistry, Coding theory, Coupled oscillations, Cryptography, Economics, Elimination theory, Games, Genetics, Geometry, Graph Theory, Heat distribution, Image compression, Linear programming, Markov chains, Networks, Sociology, the Fibonacci numbers, and Eigenfaces created by the University of Ottawa, Canada.
  • Linear Algebra on the Internet A list of references to concepts and applications of linear algebra on the web from the School of Engineering, Mathematics and Science, Purdue University Calumet.
  • LIGHTS! An amusing game developed by Misha Guysinsky at Penn State whose solution depends on solving linear systems.
  • LIGHTS OUT!  A java version of the commercially marketed game Lights Out from Tiger Electronics developed by the Department of Mathematics at Whitman College. Here is a PDF version of the paper


OTHER INTERESTING WEB SITES ON LINEAR ALGEBRA/MATRIX THEORY