Practical Linear Algebra
A Geometry Toolbox

by Gerald Farin & Dianne Hansford

published by A K Peters, Ltd., January 2005
384 pages, ISBN: 1-56881-234-5

Teaching Materials & Downloads

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Table of Contents & Index PDF file
Linear Algebra Glossary PDF file
Data sets-- zip Data sets referenced in text
PLA Figures -- postscript
Zip file (3MB) of all Figures found in PLA in their original postscript format.
File FigureReferenceChart.pdf in this zip file references filenames to figure numbers.
PLA Figures -- jpeg Zip file (4MB) of all Figures found in PLA as jpeg files.
File FigureReferenceChart.pdf in this zip file references filenames to figure numbers.
PLA Sketches -- jpeg Zip file (3.5MB) of all Sketches found in PLA as jpeg files.
File SketchReferenceChart.pdf in this zip file references filenames to sketch numbers.
Eigenvalues and Functions PDF file. Additional material developing eigenthings in the space of real-valued functions.
Google Eigenvectors PDF file. Additional material relating the Google search engine ranking method to the eigenvector problem.
(Updated 1 Nov 2005)
Singular Value Decomposition PDF file. Describes the Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) and the pseudo-inverse.
Principal Component Analysis PDF file. Describes the Principal Component Analysis (PCA) algorithm. This method is useful for finding a tight bounding box to a point set. Normally this bounding box will be better than the Axis Aligned Bounding Box (AABB).

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