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Notes on Numerical Elimination

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In a past post I discussed some of the numerical ways to decompose into two other matrices, one lower triangular \(L\) and one upper triangular \(U\). Th...

The Inverse and LU Decomposition Agorithms

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We usually use a matrix to denote a change, a linear transformation that affects the space we are working with. And almost as if following Newton’s third...

Orthogonality and the Gram-Schmidt Algorithm

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Orthogonality is a generalization of well known notion of perpendicularity in geometry. The word comes from the Greek ὀρθός (orthos), meaning “upright”, ...

Norms and Inner Products

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If you were to describe a vector you most probably would use its basis to orient it in space and then describe its length and direction. I want to focus ...