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Lectures

DateTopicLecture notes
February 25 Dot product, inner product. Cauchy-Schwarz inequality. lecture notes
March 2 Norm and orthogonality. Orthonormal basis, Gram-Schmidt orthogonalization. lecture notes
March 3 Othogonal complement and projection. lecture notes
March 17 Method of least squares, pseudoinverse. Isometries and orthogonal matrices. lecture notes
March 24 Determinants - definition, row operations. lecture notes
April 6 Determinants - multiplicativity, linear equations, inverse. lecture notes
April 7 Applications of determinants. Eigenvalues and eigenvectors. lecture notes
April 14, April 21 Matrix similarity. Diagonalization and Jordan normal form. lecture notes
April 28 Cayley-Hamilton theorem. Symmetric and positive matrices, Perron-Frobenius theorem. lecture notes
May 5, May 12 Bilinear and quadratic forms. Classification of quadrics. lecture notes
May 19 Positive (semi)definiteness. lecture notes
May 26 Matrix decompositions. lecture notes