Readings

Readings are specified for each topic in lecture. They come mainly from the two course textbooks:

• Moler, Numerical Computing with Matlab (required)
• Tufte, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (supplementary)

Floating Point

• Wikipedia article on IEEE 754 standard
• Moler S. 1.7

Orthogonal factorizations

• Moler S. 5.4–5.7
• Moler S. 10.1–10.5

Singular Value Decomposition

• Moler S. 2.9
• Moler S. 10.11
• Prof. Todd Will's SVD web tutorial at University of Wisconsin—La Crosse

Principal Component Analysis

• Turk & Pentland, “Eigenfaces for Recognition.” Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 3:1, 1991. [Author PDF]
• Chan & Mozurkewich, “Simplified representation of atmospheric aerosol size distributions using absolute principal components analysis.” Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 7, 875–886, 2007. [Journal page]