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Catalog Information

Title

Matrix Analysis.

Credit Hours

3

Prerequisite

Math 302 or 313; or equivalents.

Description

Special classes of matrices, canonical forms, matrix and vector norms, localization of eigenvalues, matrix functions, applications.

Desired Learning Outcomes

Math 570 is a one semester course on matrix analysis.

Prerequisites

Math 313 or 302 or equivalent and Math 112, 113, 314.

Minimal learning outcomes

Matrix arithmetic and Linear transformations The theory of determinants including all proofs of their properties Rank of a matrix and elementary matrices Spectral theory

 Shur's theorem
 Principal invariants of trace and determinant
 Quadratic forms and second derivative test
 Gerschgorin's theorem

Abstract vector spaces and general fields

 Axioms
 Subspaces and bases
 Applications to general fields

Linear transformations

 Matrix of a linear transformation
 Rotations
 Eigenvalues and eigenvectors of linear transformations

Cannonical forms

 Jordan Cannonical form

Markov chains and migration processes

 Regular Markov matrices
 Absorbing states and gambler's ruin 

Inner product spaces

 Gramm Schmidt process
 Tensor product of vectors
 Least squares
 Fredholm alternative
 Determinants and volume

Self adjoint operators

 Simultaneous diagonalization
 Spectral theory of self adjoint operators 
 Positive and negative linear transformations 
 Fractional powers
 Polar decompositions
 Applications
 Singular value decomposition
 The Frobenius norm and approximation in this norm
 Least squares and the Moore Penrose inverse

Norms for finite dimensional vector spaces

 The p norms
 The condition number
 The spectral radius
 Sequences and series of linear operators
 Iterative methods for solutions of linear systems

Textbooks

Possible textbooks for this course include (but are not limited to):

Horn and Johnson, Friedberg, Insel and Spence, or equivalent.

Additional topics

Numerical methods for finding eigenvalues Power methods The QR algorithm Rational canonical form

Courses for which this course is prerequisite