<html lang="en"> <head> <title>Linear Algebra - Untitled</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html"> <meta name="description" content="Untitled"> <meta name="generator" content="makeinfo 4.13"> <link title="Top" rel="start" href="index.html#Top"> <link rel="prev" href="Arithmetic.html#Arithmetic" title="Arithmetic"> <link rel="next" href="Nonlinear-Equations.html#Nonlinear-Equations" title="Nonlinear Equations"> <link href="http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/" rel="generator-home" title="Texinfo Homepage"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css"> <style type="text/css"><!-- pre.display { font-family:inherit } pre.format { font-family:inherit } pre.smalldisplay { font-family:inherit; font-size:smaller } pre.smallformat { font-family:inherit; font-size:smaller } pre.smallexample { font-size:smaller } pre.smalllisp { font-size:smaller } span.sc { font-variant:small-caps } span.roman { font-family:serif; font-weight:normal; } span.sansserif { font-family:sans-serif; font-weight:normal; } --></style> </head> <body> <div class="node"> <a name="Linear-Algebra"></a> <p> Next: <a rel="next" accesskey="n" href="Nonlinear-Equations.html#Nonlinear-Equations">Nonlinear Equations</a>, Previous: <a rel="previous" accesskey="p" href="Arithmetic.html#Arithmetic">Arithmetic</a>, Up: <a rel="up" accesskey="u" href="index.html#Top">Top</a> <hr> </div> <h2 class="chapter">18 Linear Algebra</h2> <p>This chapter documents the linear algebra functions of Octave. Reference material for many of these functions may be found in Golub and Van Loan, <cite>Matrix Computations, 2nd Ed.</cite>, Johns Hopkins, 1989, and in the <span class="sc">lapack</span><cite> Users' Guide</cite>, SIAM, 1992. <ul class="menu"> <li><a accesskey="1" href="Techniques-used-for-Linear-Algebra.html#Techniques-used-for-Linear-Algebra">Techniques used for Linear Algebra</a> <li><a accesskey="2" href="Basic-Matrix-Functions.html#Basic-Matrix-Functions">Basic Matrix Functions</a> <li><a accesskey="3" href="Matrix-Factorizations.html#Matrix-Factorizations">Matrix Factorizations</a> <li><a accesskey="4" href="Functions-of-a-Matrix.html#Functions-of-a-Matrix">Functions of a Matrix</a> <li><a accesskey="5" href="Specialized-Solvers.html#Specialized-Solvers">Specialized Solvers</a> </ul> </body></html>