MATH 2601: WEEK 7

Topics for this week are:

• Introduction to numerical methods; sources of errors
• Matrix norm, condition number
• Gaussian elimination with partial pivoting
• LU-decomposition

Text coverage:

    Section 1 Section 2 of the [Notes:Num].

Online resources:

• Online notes
  • [Notes:Num] Section 1 Introduction
  • [Notes:Num] Section 2 Partial pivoting, LU factorization
• Answers to selected problems
• Maple Worksheets
  • Introduction to Maple's Linear Algebra package (by J. A. Ziegler)

Assignment for this week:

• Problems:
  • Problem set #7

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