Computational Linear Algebra

Fall 2000

Grades are now available. Have a good break!
Final exam: due on December 14. (Last modified on Dec 11, to reflect corrections noted in my emails to you.) Here is a brief discussion of four digit codes.
Homework 5. The solutions to Homework 5, questions 1 to 4 and question 5 (added Dec 4).

Course outline
Office hours: Monday, 12.30 - 1.30, and Thursday, 4.0 - 6.0.
Office: Amos Eaton 325
Phone: (518) 276-6915
Fax: (518) 276-4824
I will put solutions to homeworks and exams on reserve in the library, where they will be available electronically. Books will also be placed on reserve. You can borrow material for up to an hour from the circulation desk. Further, you can borrow the books overnight if you check them out less than an hour before closing time and return them early the following day.

Homeworks:

Homework 1, now with hints. The solutions to questions 1 to 5 and question 6 from Homework 1 are now available.
Homework 2. The solutions to Homework 2 are now available.
Homework 3. Note that the due date for this homework is now Thursday, October 12. The solutions to Homework 3 are now available.
Homework 4. The solutions to Homework 4, questions 1 to 4, and question 5, are now available.
Homework 5. Here are the solutions to Homework 5, questions 1 to 4 and question 5.

Midterm exam: This will be held on Thursday, October 19. It will be in class. The solutions to the midterm are now available.
Final exam: due on December 14. Here is a brief discussion of four digit codes.

An introduction to the conjugate gradient method.
A MATLAB primer: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~demmel/ma221/primer4_0_1.ps.gz
More resources for MATLAB are listed on the course page for MATH4800, Numerical Computing.
LAPACK: This is a library of numerical linear algebra routines in Fortran and C/C++, available from netlib at http://www.netlib.org
The FORTRAN version is installed on RCS in /campus/math/lapack. You can link to it by -L/campus/math/2.0/@sys/lib -llapack, or find the source in /campus/math/lapack/2.0/distrib/SRC.
The HOMEPAGE for Demmel's book.