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Linear Algebra Through Geometry

By Prof. M Krishna Kumar, Prof. Ashok Rao, Prof. Arulalan M R   |   IISc Bangalore, NITK Surathkal
Learners enrolled: 1427   |  Exam registration: 116
ABOUT THE COURSE:
This course will provide a holistic approach to LA covering both the algebraic and more importantly, geometric perspectives.
A typical linear algebra course focuses on explaining the action of a matrix in abstract or algebraic language. However, we know that a picture is worth a thousand words. While algebra is useful for computation, it rarely provides sufficient intuition. This course provides
(a) a more holistic approach to linear algebra, helping students comprehend concepts and connect them to their respective domains effectively.
(b) intuition and visualizations, whenever and wherever possible, to concepts of linear algebra such as vector spaces, subspaces, eigenvectors and systems of linear equations.
This approach will motivate learners to create their own illustrations and examples to fully understand the various ideas.

INTENDED AUDIENCE: BE/BTech/ME/MTech//BSc/MSc(Maths)/MCA

PREREQUISITES: Basic Mathematics at school and undergraduate level

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Summary
Course Status : Ongoing
Course Type : Core
Duration : 12 weeks
Category :
  • Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering
  • Computer Science and Engineering
  • Communication and Signal Processing
  • Control and Instrumentation
  • Foundations of Computing
Credit Points : 3
Level : Undergraduate/Postgraduate
Start Date : 22 Jul 2024
End Date : 11 Oct 2024
Enrollment Ends : 05 Aug 2024
Exam Registration Ends : 16 Aug 2024
Exam Date : 26 Oct 2024 IST

Note: This exam date is subjected to change based on seat availability. You can check final exam date on your hall ticket.


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Course layout

Week 1:  Introduction to Linear Algebra and applications, Overview of the course, Idea of matrices, operations on matrices, System of linear equations and matrix representations, visualizing system of linear equations, Homogeneous system of equations and solution.

Week 2: Gauss elimination, RREF, Matrix inverse, Determinants and Cramer’s rule

Week 3: Vectors in 2D - Points and vectors in 2D, coordinate independent and dependent operations, length of a vector, combining vectors, linear independence and dot product, Orthogonal projections in 2D
Lines in 2D, Parametric equations of line, Linear Maps in 2D, Linear Systems (2x2), eigenvalues and eigenvectors in 2D.

Week 4: Vectors in 3D, cross product, lines, planes, Distance between point and a plane, distance between two lines, interaction between lines and planes

Week 5: Linear Maps in 3D, Volumes and linear maps, eigenvalues and eigenvectors in 3D

Week 6: Linear systems in 3D, LU Decomposition, Least squares, inner products, Gram-Schmidt orthonormalization, QR Decomposition, Eigenvalues and eigenvectors in 3D

Week 7: Vector spaces, vector subspaces, linear combination of vectors and linear independence, basis and dimension

Week 8: Four fundamental subspaces associated with a matrix and their geometry, rank, nullity

Week 9: Least squares and best optimal solution, pseudoinverse, pseudoinverse for special matrices

Week 10: Real symmetric matrices, properties of real symmetric matrices, Quadratic forms

Week 11: Singular value decomposition, Applications of Linear algebra in different domains

Week 12: Image Compression, Principal Component Analysis

Books and references

1. Farin and Hansford, “Practical Linear Algebra: A Geometric Toolbox”, CRC Press, 2021
2. Thomas Banchoff, “ Linear Algebra through Geometry”, Springer, 1993, 2nd Ed.
3. Stephen Boyd, “Introduction to Applied Linear Algebra”, Cambridge University Press, 2018.
4. Gilbert Strang,”Introduction to Linear Algebra” Wellesley Cambridge Press, 5th Ed
5. Edgar Goodaire, “Linear Algebra -Pure and Applied”, Academic Press
6. Andrilli,”Elementary Linear Algebra”, Elsevier Press, 5th Ed, 2016.

Instructor bio

Prof. M Krishna Kumar

IISc Bangalore
Prof. Krishna Kumar has a rich teaching experience of over 40 years at IISc Bangalore, in the domains of Embedded Systems, Real-time Digital Signal Processing, DSP Algorithms, Architectures and Applications. His recent interests had been on mathematical foundations for signal processing and machine learning. He had taught the course on Mathematical Foundations of Machine Learning, Probability Foundations for Machine Learning and Probability, Statistics and Matrix Methods for Machine Learning in the Centre for Continuing Education at the IISc in the last 5 years.


Prof. Ashok Rao

Prof. Ashok Rao is with 30 years of teaching and research experience in the domains of Digital Signal Processing, Linear Algebra, Image Processing, Multimedia and Machine Learning etc. He is a gold medalist from IISc in his MTech degree and holds a PhD from IIT Bombay. He has been awarded Texas Instruments (TI) International DSP Design & Education Award for promoting Excellence in Undergraduate DSP education during 1996-98. He has received Citation from Philips Company for regularly crafting excellent UG students in E & C, in the area of Signal processing & Digital Communication during 96-98.


Prof. Arulalan M R

NITK Surathkal
Prof. Arulalan Rajan is a PhD from IISc with interests in Algorithms and Architectures for Signal Processing and Machine Learning, Applied Linear Algebra, Number Theory, Probabilistic ML and Statistics. He has taught courses on Linear Algebra, Matrix Theory and Stochastic Processes during his tenure, between 2013-19 at NITK Surathkal. He has also co-taught the courses on Mathematical Foundations of Machine Learning, Probability Foundations for Machine Learning and Probability, Statistics and Matrix Methods for Machine Learning in the Centre for Continuing Education at the IISc in the last 5 years. He is the author for the Indian adaptation of the textbook on A friendly Introduction to Probability and Stochastic Processes, by Yates and Goodman for Wiley India.

Course certificate

The course is free to enroll and learn from. But if you want a certificate, you have to register and write the proctored exam conducted by us in person at any of the designated exam centres.
The exam is optional for a fee of Rs 1000/- (Rupees one thousand only).
Date and Time of Exams: 
26 October 2024 Morning session 9am to 12 noon; Afternoon Session 2pm to 5pm.
Registration url: Announcements will be made when the registration form is open for registrations.
The online registration form has to be filled and the certification exam fee needs to be paid. More details will be made available when the exam registration form is published. If there are any changes, it will be mentioned then.
Please check the form for more details on the cities where the exams will be held, the conditions you agree to when you fill the form etc.

CRITERIA TO GET A CERTIFICATE

Average assignment score = 25% of average of best 8 assignments out of the total 12 assignments given in the course.
Exam score = 75% of the proctored certification exam score out of 100

Final score = Average assignment score + Exam score

YOU WILL BE ELIGIBLE FOR A CERTIFICATE ONLY IF AVERAGE ASSIGNMENT SCORE >=10/25 AND EXAM SCORE >= 30/75. If one of the 2 criteria is not met, you will not get the certificate even if the Final score >= 40/100.

Certificate will have your name, photograph and the score in the final exam with the breakup.It will have the logos of NPTEL and IISc Bangalore .It will be e-verifiable at nptel.ac.in/noc.

Only the e-certificate will be made available. Hard copies will not be dispatched.

Once again, thanks for your interest in our online courses and certification. Happy learning.

- NPTEL team


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