MAS3114: Computational Linear Algebra
Spring 2007

This is the home page for my section of MAS3114, the Math Department's introductory course in linear algebra. All news and announcements relating to this course will appear on this page. Other information about the course can be found at the links listed below.

I have now settled my office hours for Spring 2007: T6, W7, F5.

Course description and requirements

Weekly Schedule

Some MATLAB resources:

• Dr. Garvan has a tutorial that will help get you started.
• A useful reference is the MATLAB Primer by Kermit Sigmon, available on amazon.com and elsewhere. Highly recommended.
• If you're adventurous, check out Octave, an open source near-clone of MATLAB. It is included in many Linux distributions. You can get source code at the web site, as well as precompiled versions for a number of Linux distributions, and Windows machines as well.
• Scilab is another open source scientific software package with linear algebra capabilities.

If you wish to email me with questions about the readings or homework (and you are always welcome to do this) please keep in mind the following:

• I don't always have the textbook with me, so if you ask me a question like "I'm having trouble with problem 15 in section 2.3" there's not a whole lot I can do. State the problem as precisely as you can, and describe the difficulty you have with it.
• Please don't send attachments, or messages in HTML, since I'm not always working in an environment where these are readable. Stick to straight text.

Richard Crew
Associate Professor of Mathematics
University of Florida