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 ...

Most linear algebra courses start by considering how to solve a system of linear equations. \[ \begin{align} a_{0,0}x_0 + a_{0,1}x_0 + \cdots a_{0,n-1}x_0 & = b_0 ...

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 ...

Mathematics of Computation, Vol. 23, No. 108 (Oct., 1969), pp. 787-812 (26 pages) The mathematical and numerical least squares solution of a general linear system of equations is discussed.