Grade school math students are likely familiar with teachers admonishing them not to just guess the answer to a problem. But a new proof establishes that, in fact, the right kind of guessing is ...

Introduces ordinary differential equations, systems of linear equations, matrices, determinants, vector spaces, linear transformations, and systems of linear differential equations. Prereq., APPM 1360 ...

SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, Vol. 34, No. 1 (Jan., 1978), pp. 176-197 (22 pages) We consider a graph-theoretic elimination process which models Gaussian elimination on sparse systems of linear ...

The Hermitian and skew-Hermitian splitting (HSS) method is an unconditionally convergent iteration method for solving large sparse non-Hermitian positive definite system of linear equations. By making ...