Programme › Year II What cosmology needs from this course
Quantum mechanics is written in linear algebra, a spacetime metric is a matrix, and rotations — like the one that proves a closed universe is the same everywhere — are orthogonal matrices.
Lectures (0 of 35 with pages so far) Lecture 1 The geometry of linear equations MIT ↗ Page not written yet
Lecture 2 Elimination with matrices MIT ↗ Page not written yet
Lecture 3 Multiplication and inverse matrices MIT ↗ Page not written yet
Lecture 4 Factorization into A = LU MIT ↗ Page not written yet
Lecture 5 Transposes, permutations, spaces R^n MIT ↗ Page not written yet
Lecture 6 Column space and nullspace MIT ↗ Page not written yet
Lecture 7 Solving Ax = 0: pivot variables, special solutions MIT ↗ Page not written yet
Lecture 8 Solving Ax = b: row reduced form R MIT ↗ Page not written yet
Lecture 9 Independence, basis, and dimension MIT ↗ Page not written yet
Lecture 10 The four fundamental subspaces MIT ↗ Page not written yet
Lecture 11 Matrix spaces; rank 1; small world graphs MIT ↗ Page not written yet
Lecture 12 Graphs, networks, incidence matrices MIT ↗ Page not written yet
Lecture 13 Quiz 1 review MIT ↗ Page not written yet
Lecture 14 Orthogonal vectors and subspaces MIT ↗ Page not written yet
Lecture 15 Projections onto subspaces MIT ↗ Page not written yet
Lecture 16 Projection matrices and least squares MIT ↗ Page not written yet
Lecture 17 Orthogonal matrices and Gram-Schmidt MIT ↗ Page not written yet
Lecture 18 Properties of determinants MIT ↗ Page not written yet
Lecture 19 Determinant formulas and cofactors MIT ↗ Page not written yet
Lecture 20 Cramer's rule, inverse matrix, and volume MIT ↗ Page not written yet
Lecture 21 Eigenvalues and eigenvectors MIT ↗ Page not written yet
Lecture 22 Diagonalization and powers of A MIT ↗ Page not written yet
Lecture 23 Differential equations and exp(At) MIT ↗ Page not written yet
Lecture 24 Markov matrices; fourier series MIT ↗ Page not written yet
Lecture 24b Quiz 2 review MIT ↗ Page not written yet
Lecture 25 Symmetric matrices and positive definiteness MIT ↗ Page not written yet
Lecture 26 Complex matrices; fast fourier transform MIT ↗ Page not written yet
Lecture 27 Positive definite matrices and minima MIT ↗ Page not written yet
Lecture 28 Similar matrices and Jordan form MIT ↗ Page not written yet
Lecture 29 Singular value decomposition MIT ↗ Page not written yet
Lecture 30 Linear transformations and their matrices MIT ↗ Page not written yet
Lecture 31 Change of basis; image compression MIT ↗ Page not written yet
Lecture 32 Quiz 3 review MIT ↗ Page not written yet
Lecture 33 Left and right inverses; pseudoinverse MIT ↗ Page not written yet
Lecture 34 Final course review MIT ↗ Page not written yet