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2. Linear Algebra

                           
Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi, relaxed   Jacobi, in action
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- Huge subject; excellent textbooks
- Many library subroutines exist
- But: ``physical'' matrices often simple in structure
- Specific algorithms that may (may!) be self-programmed
- We will concentrate on Relaxation Methods

But before that, some General remarks

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Franz J. Vesely Oct 2005
See also:
"Computational Physics - An Introduction," Kluwer-Plenum 2001