Lecture Summary

1. Resources:
   • distribute book list
   • discuss MATLAB availability and access to computers
   • layout of course , problem sets every week
   • WWW site for access to data for problem sets
2. MATLAB Primer:
   • using help and the tutorial
   • basic syntax
   • m-files and scripting
   • importing and exporting data
   • graphics
3. Basic Linear Algebra:
   • scalars, vectors and matrices
   • matrix operations (+ - mul )
   • simultaneous linear equations
   • the identity matrix
   • matrix structure, rank, linear independence
   • orthogonality and orthornormal vectors/matrices
   • decomposition and techniques
     1. QR
     2. LU
     3. cholesky
     4. Singular Value Decomposition

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