Math 3200/5200: Applied Linear Algebra

·     Test 1 is on Wednesday, Sept. 18 at class time. It will cover Chapters 1, 2, 3 of the textbook . The test is closed book, closed notes.

Class Materials

• Syllabus
• Homework
• Slides

Links to online rooms

Melkonian Office Hours Room in Microsoft Teams

Linear Algebra links

· History of matrices

· Online matrix calculator

· Linear Optimization with Applications

· John Mitchell's Optimization Pointers

· Optimization of cable robots (application in Mechanical Engineering)

· Applications of Linear Programming (includes applications in Finance, Scheduling, Chemical Engineering)

· Top ten algorithms of the 20th century

· Determinants (from Wikipedia)

· Determinants and their applications ( powerpoint slides)

· Applications of determinants (area of a triangle, etc.)

· Unimodular and totally unimodular matrices

· Linear Transformation Matrices

· Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors

· Applications of Matrices in Computer Graphics

· Eigen decomposition of matrices

· Markov Chains (chapter from another textbook)

· Markov Chains and applications in Genome Search ( powerpoint slides)

· Solving a regression problem by linear programming