Peter Blomgren
San Diego State University
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"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
(Albert Einstein.)
Math 543
Numerical Matrix Analysis

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.

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