Lecture Slides for AMSC/MATH 420: Spring 2020
Mathematical Modeling

As they become available, lecture slides will be posted here. They are subject to change, so please monitor the version date.
Future lecture dates are tentative and are also subject to change.

Background Material on Linear Algebra: Linear Algebra and Its Applications, Fifth Edition, by David C. Lay, Steven R. Lay, and Judi J. McDonald, Pearson, 2016.
This is the standard text for MATH 240 and 461. It (or an earlier edition) covers all the linear algebra that you need for this course.
Chapter 6 covers some of the material from the first two lectures on fitting.

Additional Material on Graphs:
Spectral Graph Theory 2nd Edition, by F. Chung, AMS 1997. See online information at: Spectral Graph Theory . Particularly useful: Chapter 1.

Background Materials on MATLAB: