Understand the basic idea of dependence and independence of a set of vectors. Understand the concepts of span, dimension and basis. Understand when a matrix in defective. Methods of obtaining analytical and numerical solutions of each of these classes are discussed. For numerical solutions, emphasis is placed on the connection between the behavior of the numerical method and the structure of the associated eigenvalue problem.
Extensive use is made of the material in the first two modules.
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