Marc Auer: Catalogue data in Spring Semester 2018

Name Prof. Dr. Marc Auer
(Professor FHO - HTW Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Chur (bis 2019))
Address
FHGR Fachhochschule Graubünden
Pulvermühlestrasse 57
7004 Chur
SWITZERLAND
Telephone+41 81 286 24 75
Fax+41 81 286 24 00
E-mailmarc.auer@math.ethz.ch
DepartmentMathematics
RelationshipLecturer

NumberTitleECTSHoursLecturers
406-0141-AALLinear Algebra
Enrolment ONLY for MSc students with a decree declaring this course unit as an additional admission requirement.

Any other students (e.g. incoming exchange students, doctoral students) CANNOT enrol for this course unit.
5 credits11RM. Auer
AbstractIntroduction to Linear Algebra and Numerical Analysis for Engineers. The contents of the course are covered in the book "Introduction to Linear Algebra" by Gilbert Strang (SIAM, 2003). MATLAB is used as a tool to formulate and implement numerical algorithms.
ObjectiveTo acquire basic knowledge of Linear Algebra and of a few fundamental numerical techniques. The course is meant to
hone analytic and algorithmic skills.
Content1. Vectors and vector spaces
2. Solving linear systems of equations (Gaussian elimination)
3. Orthogonality
4. Determinants
5. Eigenvalues and eigenvectors
6. Linear transformations
7. Numerical linear algebra in MATLAB
8. (Piecewise) polynomial interpolation
9. Splines
LiteratureG. Strang, "Introduction to linear algebra", Third edition, 2003,
ISBN 0-9614088-9-8, http://math.mit.edu/linearalgebra/

T. Sauer. "Numerical analysis", Addison-Wesley 2006