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Week of 22-26 September

  Topics Reading
M 09/22 Holiday, No Lectures
W 09/24
Lect. 9
Matrix Eigenvalues: eigenvalue/eigenvector definitions, invariants, principal directions and values, symmetric, skew-symmetric, and orthogonal systems, orthogonal transformations. Kreyszig 7.1, 7.2, 7.3 (pages: 371-375, 376-379, 381-384)
F 09/26
Lect. 10
Hermitian Forms, Similar matrices, eigenvalue basis, diagonal forms Kreyszig 7.4, 7.5 (pages: 385-389, 392-396)



W. Craig Carter 2003-06-17