Topic Name Description
Slides and support files (linear algebra part) File Exercises on Matlab syntax
File Definiteness of matrices - definitions and characterization
File Exercises on Householder reflectors and QR factorization
File Lab assignments on QR factorization (updated on 2016-10-5: fixed a couple of errors)
File Lab assignments on linear systems
File Example matrix (karate_ascii.mat)
File Lab assignments on least squares problems
File Stats and salaries data (salaries.csv)
File Lab assignments on eigenvalue problems
File Exercises on the Schur factorization (theoretical)
Matlab files File matlab cheat sheet
File householder reflector construction
File Arnoldi process
File QR factorization (uses the Householder reflector in the previous file)
Matlab files (optimization part) File Gradient method for quadratic functions
File Gradient method with inexact line search
File Objective function used in the gradient method
File Conjugate gradient method for quadratic functions
File Directional direct-search method
File Newton method with inexact line search
File Frank-Wolfe method
File Penalty method
File Objective function used in the penalty method
File Logarithmic barrier method
File Objective function used in the Logarithmic barrier method
File svm1
File svm2
File svm3
Other study material File Linear algebra recall and special matrices (prof. Bevilacqua's notes)
File Eigenvalues (prof. Bevilacqua's notes)
File Matrix norms (prof. Bevilacqua's notes)

Some notes written by prof. Roberto Bevilacqua, former teacher of this course. They contain useful background material on linear algebra as well as some of the new content explained in the first lectures.

File Student notes 2010-2011 course (Italian)

The students of the 2010-2011 edition of NMO produced a set of notes written in LaTeX (in Italian) and released them under a CC license. The program of the course has changed since then, but the notes may still be useful.

File Short note on identity-plus-rank-one matrices
File Answers to a few questions asked by a student

On inverse and orthogonal iteration.

File More answers to questions asked by a student
File More answers to student questions
Exams File Practice test (mock exam) 2016-12-13