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The Hat, a Tridecagon Aperiordic Monotile

Two years ago, in March of 2023, an unlikely team of mathematical hobbyists announced the discovery of a remarkable 13-sided polygon that they nick-named the "Hat". Today, a Google search for the Hat's more formal name, "Aperiodic Monotile", yields dozens of links.... read more >>

Matrices at an Exposition

A look at the structure, and the eigenvalues and singular values of interesting test matrices.... read more >>

Two Flavors of SVD

MATLAB has two different ways to compute singular values. The easiest is to compute the singular values without the singular vectors. Use svd with one output argument, s1.... read more >>

LUTool, Animation of Gaussian Elimination 2

LUTool provides an interactive animation of Gaussian elimination, the most important algorithm in technical computing.... read more >>

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