Notes and Resources...

are linked from the schedule.

Catalog description

Gaussian elimination, LU-factorizations and pivoting strategies. Direct and iterative methods for linear systems. Iterative methods for diagonalization and eigensystem computation. Tridiagonal, Hessenberg, and Householder matrices. The QR algorithm.

• 1. Math 541 (Introduction to Numerical Analysis and Computing)
• 2. Math 254 (Introduction to Linear Algebra), or
  
• 2. Math 342A (Methods of Applied Mathematics)

Computational Resources:

You must have access to the current release of Matlab. Class accounts for the labs will be available. You can also use SDSU's Rohan Sun Enterprise system or another capable system. [How to open a ROHAN account].

Required Text and Reading Materials:

Numerical Linear Algebra, Lloyd N. Trefethen and David Bau, III, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), 1997. ISBN 0-89871-361-7. Note: SIAM Student Membership is (still, hopefully) FREE, which means you can get the member price!

Class web page [http://terminus.sdsu.edu/SDSU/Math543_s2012/], and handouts.

Course Outline (as of 1/12/2012):

Trefethen/Bau: 1-...

Professor

Peter Blomgren
blomgren DOT peter AT gmail DOT com, (619)594-2602
Class hours: MWF 11:00a – 11:50a, EBA-260
Office hours: MWF 9:50a – 10:30a & 11:50a – 12:30p, GMCS-587, and by appointment.