2010/12/07: Homework 10 is now due Wednesday, December 8th at 5PM.
2010/12/07: Projects
are due at the end of the semester. They will be graded provided you
turn the project in no later than 4AM Sunday, December 19th.
2010/12/07: We'll have a project day in class on Tuesday, December 7.
2010/11/24: As
a thanksgiving largesse, we have combined the next two homeworks into
one! Homework 10 (due Tuesday, December 7). Exercises 6.8, 6.9, 6.12
and Computer Problem 6.9.
2010/11/17: Homework 9 (due Tuesday, November 23). Exercises 6.2, 6.3, 6.4 and 6.5.
2010/11/17: We plan to cover 6.1 through 6.6 with the exception of 6.3.
2010/11/10: Homework 8 (due Tuesday, November 16). Computer Problems 12.10 and 12.12.
2010/11/09: The current snapshot of the Numerical Analysis Political Survey.
2010/11/04: Midterm histogram. The mean, median and standard deviation were 73.4, 75 and 10.4 respectively.
2010/11/04: Class project notes.
2010/11/03: Tuesday, November
9 is the deadline for turning in your group names for the class project
(with groups comprising two people). If I do not hear from you by 5PM
Tuesday evening, you'll be assigned into a group of my choosing.
2010/11/03: The deadline for turning in Homework 7 is now Tuesday, November 9. From next week, homeworks will be due on Tuesdays.
2010/10/29: Homework 7 (due Thursday, November 4th, 2010) -
Computer Problem 3.12(a), Exercises 12.1, 12.4, 12.7, 12.9. (You are
responsible for figuring out the serial versus parallel update
difference between the original and modified Gram-Schmidt procedures.)
2010/10/29: Midterm solutions here. Please take a close look before marshalling your regrading arguments.
2010/10/22: Homework 6 (due Thursday, October 28th, 2010): Exercises 3:30, 3:31, 3:32, 3:33, 3:34.
2010/10/22: Please evangelize the site www.computingpolitics.com with your family and friends. We need at least a 1000 responses to the survey before the closing of the election window.
2010/10/14: Cheat sheet for the midterm.
2010/10/12: Solutions to Homework 5.
2010/10/12: The
midterm will cover chapter 1 (excluding sections 1.3.4 and above),
chapter 2 (excluding sections 2.4 and above), chapter 3 (only sections
3.1, 3.2, 3.4.3 and 3.4.5 are included).
2010/10/11: Solutions to Homework 4.
2010/10/09: The
Sakai system is now set up for use. Please login and check your scores.
You may also respond to the idea of replacing the second midterm with a
project via the Sakai/E-learning message board/messaging service.
2010/10/09: Thus
far, we have only received positive comments on having a project
instead of the second midterm. The deadline for making this decision is
the end of midterm 1 which will be held on Thursday, October 14th, 2010.
2010/10/09: Solutions to Homework 3.
2010/10/07: We
are seriously considering having a project instead of the second
midterm. The project will carry the same weight as the midterm. Please
email comments to me especially if you have any objections.
2010/10/06: Homework 5 (due Tuesday, October 12th, 2010 at 5PM) - Exercises 3.12, 3.13, 3.26, 3.27, Computer Problem 3.4.
2010/10/03: Solutions to Homework 2.
2010/10/03: We will have office hours from 11AM-12noon on both
Monday and Tuesday of this week in lieu of the missed office hours on
Thursday and Friday of last week.
2010/09/28: Homework 4 (due Tuesday, October 5th, 2010) - Exercises 3.1, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.8, Computer Problem 3.1.
2010/09/24: Gilbert Strang's book, Introduction to Linear Algebra is now available on a 2 hour course reserve basis in the UF library (for COT4501).
2010/09/23: We will break from tradition and assign Homework 4 on Tuesday, September 28th,
2010. This will give us a chance to introduce new material from Chapter
3 (Linear Least Squares). Homework 4 will be due Tuesday, October 5th, 2010.
2010/09/23: Wikipedia entries on linear programming and the P versus NP problem. RJ Lipton's blog on the P=NP question is very informative.
2010/09/22: Solutions to Homework 1.
2010/09/22: For Computer problem 2.14, since MATLAB has deprecated the flops
command, please compare the "wall clock time difference" of the two
methods. You may have to use fairly large matrices to see a difference.
If you're using octave, you might see a difference at smaller sizes.
2010/09/16: Gilbert Strang's book, Introduction to Linear Algebra is really good if you like the geometric point of view. His videos on linear algebra from Fall 1999 are openly available and are priceless.
2010/09/16: Homework 3
(due Thursday, September 23rd, 2010) - Exercises 2.25, 2.30, 2.31, 2.32,
2.33, 2.34. 2.35, Computer Problem 2.14.
2010/09/11: Homework 2
(due Thursday, September 16th, 2010) - Exercises 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4,
2.5, 2.6. 2.29.
2010/09/07: Matlab script
for computer problem 1.1. Seems to run in both matlab 2010a and octave
3.2.4. octave takes a very looong time to execute on my linux box,
throws up a bunch of errors but still generates the same plots as its
matlab coutnerpart.
2010/09/02: Homework 1 (due
Thursday,
September 9th, 2010).
2010/09/02: For information on arbitrary precision numerical
systems, check out GNU MP and GNU MPFR.
2010/08/26: Reading list - Chapter 1
2010/08/26:
Histogram of pretest scores
