The same thing would be true for the first function above, f (x) = x²: n ² would equal n. This would be a weird mathematics indeed (there are algebras in which this happens for some nonunit ...

While linear functions are easy enough to define, the term “nonlinear” takes in everything else. “There’s this famous quote — I’m not sure who said it first — that the theory of ...

Basic linear algebra methods including basic matrix/vector operations, solution of linear systems of equations, eigenvalues, and singular values. Focus will be on applications of the methods on a ...