Handouts for Math 221

Required

• PMI
• Vectors (Ignore first page.)
• Lines & Planes
• Solving Linear Systems (Corrected)
• Curve Fitting
• Sums of Powers
• Vector Spaces (Corrected)
• Row, Column and Null Spaces
• Determinants (There are gaps.)

Maple Handouts

• general_intro.html: General Introduction.
• linalg1.html: Linear Algebra with Malpe (intro)
• linalg3apps.html: Three Applications for Systems of Equations
• Finding bases for row, column and null aspaces
• leastsq_poly_no_noise.html
• leastsq_noisy_poly.html
• leastsq_noisy_planes.html

• datasetx.m A cubic polynomial,-x^3+2x over [-2,2], + noise +1 to -1 uniform.
• dataset3.m A polynomial + noise
• Zplanedata.m A plane plus noise
• Zplanedata2.m A plane + noise

Optional Handouts & Links

• Introduction to Proofs (Recommended for math majors.)
• Matrix Algebra for 2x2 matrices
• Matrix Inverses (Lecture notes)
• Basis (Incomplete lecture notes)
• Gram Schimdt Process
• What good is Linear Algebra?
• Linear Algebra in a Nutshell
• Numerical Linear Algebra (UCB) (Recommended for CS majors.) (Bad Link)
• Numerical Linear Algebra (Princeton) (Recommended for CS majors.)