Mathematics 221
Professor M. Gu
Fall
2007
Tentative Schedule
| Week of | Topics |
| 8/28 | 1.1-1.5, General Matrix Techniques, Polynomials. Floating Point Arithmetic. |
| 9/03 | 1.5-1.7, Floating Point Arithmetic, Polynomials, Norms.2.1-2.2, Perturbations (exclude 2.2.1) |
| 9/10 | 2.2-2.4, Perturbations, Gaussian Elimination. Error Analysis |
| 9/17 | 2.4-2.6, Error Analysis, Accuracy, Block Algorithms. |
| 9/24 | 2.6-2.7, Block Algorithms. Special Systems. |
| 10/01 | 3.1-3.3, Least Squares, Perturbation Theory. |
| 10/08 | 3.4-3.6, Orthogonal Matrices. Rank-deficient Least Squares. Performance. |
The above schedule is provisional and will frequently change as the course progresses.