Math 260, Fall 2018, Assignment 12

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"When I think of Euclid even now, I have to wipe my sweaty brow."

- C. M. Bellman

Read:[edit]

  1. Section 5.2.

Carefully define the following terms, then give one example and one non-example of each:[edit]

  1. Orthonormal (set of vectors).

Carefully state the following theorems (you do not need to prove them):[edit]

  1. Formula for coordinates with respect to an orthonormal basis.
  2. $QR$ decomposition theorem.

Carefully describe the following algorithms:[edit]

  1. Gram-Schmidt orthonormalization algorithm.

Solve the following problems:[edit]

  1. Section 5.2, problems 3, 5, 7, 9, 17, 19, 21, 23, 29, 32, and 33.
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