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| | Course 18: Mathematics |
 | | Basic subject on matrix theory and linear algebra, emphasizing topics useful in other disciplines, including systems of equations, vector spaces, determinants, eigenvalues, singular value decomposition, and positive definite matrices. |
 | | Harmonic theory on complex manifolds, Hodge decomposition theorem, Hard Lefschetz theorem. |
 | | Topics include direct and iterative methods for linear systems, eigenvalue decompositions and QR/SVD factorizations, stability and accuracy of numerical algorithms, the IEEE floating point standard, sparse and structured matrices, preconditioning, linear algebra software. |
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