VECTORS | |
Introduction: The Racetrack Game | |
The Geometry and Algebra of Vectors | |
Length and Angle: The Dot Product | |
Exploration: Vectors and Geometry | |
Lines and Planes | |
Exploration: The Cross Product | |
Writing Project: Origins of the Dot Product and the Cross Product | |
Applications | |
Systems Of Linear Equations | |
Introduction: Triviality | |
Introduction to Systems of Linear Equations | |
Direct Methods for Solving Linear Systems | |
Writing Project: A History of Gaussian Elimination | |
Explorations: Lies My Computer Told Me; Partial Pivoting; Counting Operations: An Introduction to the Analysis of Algorithms | |
Spanning Sets and Linear Independence | |
Applications | |
Vignette: The Global Positioning System | |
Iterative Methods for Solving Linear Systems | |
Matrices | |
Introduction: Matrices in Action | |
Matrix Operations | |
Matrix Algebra | |
The Inverse of a Matrix | |
The LU Factorization | |
Subspaces, Basis, Dimension, and Rank | |
Introduction to Linear Transformations | |
Vignette: Robotics | |
Applications | |
Eigenvalues And Eigenvectors | |
Introduction: A Dynamical System on Graphs | |
Introduction to Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors | |
Determinants | |
Writing Project: Which Came First-the Matrix or the Determinant? Vignette: Lewis Carroll's Condensation Method | |
Exploration: Geometric Applications of Determinants | |
Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors of n x n Matrices | |
Writing Project: The History of Eigenvalues | |
Similarity and Diagonalization | |
Iterative Methods for Computing Eigenvalues | |
Applications and the Perron-Frobenius Theorem.Vignette: Ranking Sports Teams and Searching the Internet | |
Orthogonality | |
Introduction: Shadows on a Wall | |
Orthogonality in Rn | |
Orthogonal Complements and Orthogonal Projections | |
The Gram-Schmidt Process and the QR Factorization | |
Explorations: The Modified QR Factorization; Approximating Eigenvalues with the QR Algorithm | |
Orthogonal Diagonalization of Symmetric Matrices | |
Applications | |
Vector Spaces | |
Introduction: Fibonacci in (Vector) Space | |
Vector Spaces and Subspaces | |
Linear Independence, Basis, and Dimension | |
Writing Project: The Rise of Vector Spaces | |
Exploration: Magic Squares | |
Change of Basis | |
Linear Transformations | |
The Kernel and Range of a Linear Transformation | |
The Matrix of a Linear Transformation | |
Exploration: Tilings, Lattices and the Crystallographic Restriction | |
Applications | |
Distance And Approximation | |
Introduction: Taxicab Geometry | |
Inner Product Spaces | |
Explorations: Vectors and Matrices with Complex Entries; Geometric Inequalities and Optimization Problems | |
Norms and Distance Functions | |
Least Squares Approximation | |
The Singular Value Decomposition | |
Vignette: Digital Image Compression | |
Applications | |
Codes | |
(Online)Code Vectors | |
Vignette: The Codabar System | |
Error-Correcting Codes | |
Dual Codes | |
Linear Codes | |
The Minimum Distance of a Code | |
Mathematical Notation and Methods of Proof | |
Mathematical Induction | |
Complex Numbers | |
Polynomials | |
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