Weekly Homework Assignments


(Assignments are not to be handed in)

Assignment 1
Review the material in
Chapter 1 - Sections 1.1 to 1.3: Vectors
Chapter 2 - Sections 2.1 to 2.3: System of linear equations
Chapter 3 - Sections 3.1 to 3.6: Matrices and matrix algebra
Chapter 4 - Sections 4.1 to 4.4: Determinants
Chapter 6 - Sections 6.1 to 6.4: Linear transformations
Chapter 7 - Sections 7.1 to 7.5: Dimension and structure
of Anton and Busby's book.
Solution to Assignment 1

Assignment 2
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4.4 Eigenvalues and eigenvectors
8.2 Similarity and diagonalizability
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Assignment 3 [skip Question 3(c)]
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8.8 Complex eigenvalues and eigenvectors
Appendix B Complex numbers
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Assignment 4
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7.7 Projection theorem and its implications
7.9 Orthonormal bases and the Gram-Schmidt process
6.2 Geometry of linear operators
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Assignment 5
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7.8 Best approximation and least squares
7.10 QR-decomposition; (skip Householder transformations)
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Assignment 6
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8.10 Systems of differential equations
8.3,8.9 Orthogonal diagonalizabilty
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Assignment 7
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8.4 Quadratic forms
8.5 Application of quadratic forms to optimization
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Assignment 8
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9.1 Vector space axioms
7.1 to 7.5
7.11 Coordinates with respect to a basis
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Assignment 9
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9.2 Inner product space. Fourier Series
9.3 General linear transformation
8.1 Matrix representation of linear transformation
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Assignment 10
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8.6 Singular value decomposition
3.8 Partitioned matrices
8.7 The pseudoinverse
Solution to Assignment 10