Kuramoto Oscillators I have blogged before about the work Indika Rajapakse, Steve Smale and I are doing to investigate the stability of Kuramoto... read more >>

The QR decomposition provides an estimate of the matrix condition number.... read more >>

Velvel Kahan's informal name in Yiddish, װעלװעל, means "little wolf." If he needs a more formal name, Velvel uses William.... read more >>

My first blog about SVD and Partisanship in the U. S. Senate was five years ago. Today's post updates that to 2025.... read more >>

Nick Trethen is a world famous computational scientist and my good friend.... read more >>

Pete Stewart is one of my closest colleagues.... read more >>

The twenty-second Householder Symposium on Numerical Linear Algebra was held June 8 - June 13 at Cornell. The local organizers were Anil Damle, Alex Townsend and David Bindel. Anil served as host and cheerleader.... read more >>

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

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