Lectures 2014

Date Video Slides
Wednesday, 9/3 Video See Friday, 9/5
Friday, 9/5 Video The Field, part 1. Also see this note
Monday, 9/8 Video The Field, part 2, The Vector (intro)
Wednesday, 9/10 Video The Vector (intro, continued)
Friday, 9/12 Video The Vector (remainder)
Monday, 9/15 Video The Vector Space (intro)
Wednesday, 9/17 Video The Vector Space (continued)
Friday, 9/19 Video The Matrix (intro)
Monday, 9/22 Video The Matrix (matrix-vector and vector-matrix multiplication)
Wednesday, 9/24 Video The Matrix (more dot-product uses, linear systems as matrix equations, coumn vectors and row vectors, algebraic properties of matrix-vector mult)
Friday, 9/26 Video The Matrix (Null space of a matrix, solution set of a matrix-vector equation, error-correcting codes, from function to matrix, linear functions) STILL ROUGH
Monday, 9/29 Video The Matrix (more on linear functions, kernel, one-to-one linear functions, the image, first look at onto linear functions)
Wednesday, 10/1 Video The Matrix (inner/outer products, matrix-mult and function composition, matrix inverse)
Friday, 10/3 Video The Basis (coordinate representations, greedy algorithms, minimum spanning forest)
Monday, 10/6 Video The Basis (superfluous-vector lemma, linear dependence, connection to other concepts, linear-dependence in MSF, properties of linear dependence, analyzing the Grow algorithm)
Wednesday, 10/8 Video The Basis (analyzing the Shrink Algorithm, intro to basis, intro to change of basis)
Friday, 10/10 Video The Basis (change of basis, cameras and perspective)
Monday, 10/13 No class
Wednesday, 10/15 Video The Basis (perspective rectification, Exchange Lemma)
Friday, 10/17 Video Dimension (The Morphing Lemma, Size of a Basis, rank and row rank and column rank, termination of Grow and Shrink)
Monday, 10/20 Video Dimension (Dimension Lemma, Rank Theorem, Direct Sum)
Wednesday, 10/22 Video Dimension (Direct-Sum Dimension Corollary, linear-function invertibility, extracting an invertible function), Oct. 22, 2014
Friday, 10/24 Video Dimension (The Kernel-Image Theorem, linear function invertibility, the Rank-Nullity Theorem, matrix Invertibility, the Annihilator of a vector space), Oct. 24, 2014
Monday, 10/27 Video Gaussian Elimination (Echelon form, multiplying by an invertible matrix preserves row space)
Wednesday, 10/29 Video Gaussian Elimination (Using elementary row-addition operations, failure of Gaussian elimination, Gaussian elimination over GF(2), using Gaussian elimination for solving a linear system and for finding a basis for the null space)
Friday, 10/31 Video Gaussian Elimination (recording transformations, factoring integers, authentication)
Monday, 11/3 Video The Inner Product (Fire-Engine Problem, norm, Inner product, orthogonality, project-along and project-orthogonal)
Wednesday, 11/5 Video Orthogonalization (closest point in a plane, closest point in a vector space, high-dimensional fire-engine lemma, projection onto V, projection orthogonal to V, project_orthogonal)
Friday, 11/7 Video Orthogonalization (loop invariant for project_orthogonal, augmented project_orthogonal, orthogonalization)
Monday, 11/10 Video Orthogonalization (matrix form, using orthogonalization for closest vector, basis, subset-basis, and null space basis)
Wednesday, 11/12 Video Orthogonalization (augmenting orthogonalize, matrices with mutually orthogonal columns, orthonormal vectors, QR factorization, solving Ax=b when A is invertible, least squares)
Friday, 11/14 Video Orthogonalization (least squares, linear regression, compensating for inaccurate measurements by using more measurements, applying least-squares to the machine-learning problem), The SVD (multiplying a vector by a rank-one or low-rank matrix, Frobenius norm)
Monday, 11/17 Video The SVD (The trolley-line-location problem, first right singular vector and first singular value, visualizing high-dimensional data on a line)
Wednesday, 11/19 Video The SVD (Best rank-one approximation to a matrix, closest one-dimensional affine space, closest k-dimensional vector space, closest k-dimensional affine space)
Friday, 11/21 Partial video (initial part of lecture not recorded) The SVD (SVD existence proof, best rank-k approximation, in terms of SVD, two principal components, function interpretation of SVD, least squares via SVD)
Monday, 11/24 Video The SVD (simple example of deblurring), The Eigenvector (two interest-bearing accounts, Fibonacci numbers, definition of eigenvalues and eigenvectors)
Wednesday, 11/26 Thanksgiving
Friday, 11/28 Thanksgiving
Monday, 12/2 Video The Eigenvector (Eigenvalues and invertibility, similarity between matrices, diagonalizability, diagonalizable matrices and change of basis, sick rabbits)
Wednesday, 12/3 To Be Posted The Eigenvector (The Worm, The Dance Club, Randy, first look at stationary distribution, Markov chains, spatial locality in CPU memory fetches, Markov chains)
Friday, 12/5 Video The Eigenvector (Stationary distribution, Perron-Frobenius Theorem implication, Power method, Pagerank)
Monday, 12/9 Video The Eigenvector (Proof of existence of eigenvalues, computing an eigenvalue)
Wednesday, 12/10 Video The Eigenvector (Limitations of eigenvalue analysis, eigenvalues for symmetric matrices, complex conjugate, Hermitian, eigenvalues and eigenvectors of symmetric matrices, relating singular values to eigenvalues, estimating a right singular vector using the power method, deflation)
2013 Lectures