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Math 291: Intro to Mathematica for Linear Algebra

syllabus

schedule and notes

1. Week one: Intro to Mathematica (notebook and final)
2. Week two: Intro to matrices (notebook, final, addition, and multiplication)
3. Week three: Rotations and other Transformations (notebook, manipulates, and a more thorough notebook on manipulates)
4. Week four: no class
5. Week five: Lighting 3D Graphics (Seeing the Light by Birgit Hindman)
6. Week six: Barycentric coordinates with corresponding notebook
7. Week seven: Shading (notebook and final)
8. Week eight: Shading and vertex normals (notebook)
9. Week nine: no class
10. Week ten: Singular value decomposition (SVD defuses the bomb, SVD and applications, and full documentation

Change the default matrix output to MatrixForm:

$Post:=If[MatrixQ[#],MatrixForm[#],#]&

Last updated: September 09, 2013