Integration can also be multivariate, which leads to multiple integrals. We will not discuss this further, and interested readers can refer to more advanced textbooks. Many quantities such as force, velocity, and deformation in sciences are vectors which have both a magnitude and a direction.
Vectors are a special class of matrices. All these vectors form an n-dimensional vector space V n. This is because each of the components is obtained by simple addition, which means it has the same properties. The zero vector 0 is a special case where all its components are zeros. Yang-Comp-Maths page 11 Mathematical Foundations 11 which is a real number.
Indeed, the vector w is perpendicular to both u and v. Any vector v in an n-dimensional vector space V n can be written as a combination of a set of n independent basis vectors or orthogonal spanning vectors e1 , e2 , The most common basis vectors are the orthog- onal unit vectors.
Similarly, any three linearly dependent vectors u, v, w are in the same plane. A matrix is a table or array of numbers or functions arranged in rows and columns. The elements or entries of a matrix A are often denoted as aij. The product of two matrices is possible only if the number of columns of A is the same as the number of rows of B. The multiplications n of matrices are generally not commutive, i. Its diagonal elements or entries may or may not have zeros.
There are three important matrices: lower upper triangular matrix, tridiagonal matrix, and augmented matrix, and they are important in the solution of linear equations.
A lower upper triangular matrix is a square matrix with all the ele- ments above below the diagonal entries being zeros. Thus, there are n free pa- rameters. Yang-Comp-Maths page 19 Mathematical Foundations 19 where L and U are lower and upper matrices with all the diagonal entries being unity, and D is a diagonal matrix.
However, the require- ment for LU decompositions is relatively strict. An invertible matrix A has an LU decomposition provided that the determinants of all its diagonal minors or leading submatrices are not zeros. L and U are the strictly lower and upper triangular matrices without diagonal elements, respectively.
This decom- position is much simpler to implement than the LU decomposition because there is no multiplication involved here. Example 1. Yang-Comp-Maths page 21 Mathematical Foundations 21 The rank of a matrix A is the number of linearly independent vectors forming the matrix. It is worth noting that the unit matrix I has the same size as A. If any of these elements di is zero, then the diagonal matrix is not invertible as it becomes singular.
The algorithmic complexity of most algorithms for obtaining the inverse of a general square matrix is O n3. That is why most modern algorithms try to avoid the direct inverse of a large matrix. Solution of a large matrix system is instead carried out either by partial inverse via decomposition or by iteration or a combination of these two methods. For a triangular matrix, the inverse can be obtained using algorithms of O n2 complexity. Similarly, the solution of a linear system with a lower upper triangular matrix A can be obtained by forward back substitu- tions.
Similar arguments apply to the upper triangular systems. In this case, we have to deal with matrix exponentials. Yang-Comp-Maths page 25 Mathematical Foundations 25 the matrix exponential.
Fortunately, it can easily be done using most computer software packages. In general, the entries or elements of a matrix can be complex numbers, and the matrix becomes a complex matrix. Therefore, the original rotation matrix A is orthogonal. A very useful concept in computational mathematics and computing is quadratic forms. Yang-Comp-Maths page 28 28 Introduction to Computational Mathematics The natural extension of quadratic forms is the Hermitian form which is the quadratic form for a complex Hermitian matrix A.
Furthermore, the matrix A can consist of linear operators and functionals in addition to numbers. However, the length of the eigenvector is not unique because any non-zero multiple of u will also satisfy equation 1. For this reason, it is usually necessary to apply additional conditions by setting the length as unity, and subsequently the eigenvector becomes a unit eigenvector.
In order to get a unique eigenvector, we have to impose an extra requirement, that is, the length of the vector is unity. As these two vectors are in opposite directions, we can choose any of the two directions. This property becomes handy when rescaling the matrices in some iteration formulae so that the rescaled scheme becomes more stable. Yang-Comp-Maths page 31 Mathematical Foundations 31 1. By multiplying 1. Yang-Comp-Maths page 33 Chapter 2 Algorithmic Complexity, Norms and Convexity When analyzing an algorithm, we often discuss its computational complex- ity.
This also allows us to compare one algorithm with other algorithms in terms of various performance measures. In the literature, this complexity is also called Kolmogorov complexity. For a given problem size n, the complexity is denoted using Big-O notations such as O n2 or O n log n.
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The small o omputatinotation ona is often used if the limit tends to 0. Example 1. However, Rn does not necessarily tend to zero. The difference between these two values is 7.
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