MAT 229A Useful Links (Winter, 2002)

Course: MAT 229A
CRN: 61378
Title: Numerical Methods in Linear Algebra
Class: TTh 12:10pm-1:30pm, 129 Wellman

Instructor: Naoki Saito
Office: 675 Kerr
Phone: 754-2121
Email: saito@math.ucdavis.edu
Office Hours: TTh 2:00pm-3:00pm or by appointment via email

Professor L. N. Trefethen's Homepage:

His page has many interesting links as well as those to his textbooks. Professor Jim Demmel's Homepage:

His page has also many interesting links as well as those to his textbooks. Some Disasters Attributable to Bad Numerical Computing:

This page shows how importance numerical analysis really is. Worth visiting this page. The Early History of SVD by G. W. Stewart

This is an article about historical accounts of SVD published in SIAM Review in 1993. Matlab Information:

Matlab primer can be downloaded from here in Postscript format and PDF format.
Another Matlab primer is also available as a Postscript file and a PDF file.
The chapter of sparse matrices of the Matlab manual is available as a Postscript file and a PDF file. Please take a look at them.
For the details, the official Matlab manual is available from Matlab Online Help Desk (for web) and Matlab Online Manuals (in PDF).
To view PDF format, you need acroread from Adobe Systems Inc.

Octave Home Page:

essentially but not completely

Please email me if you have any comments or questions!
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