A groundbreaking introduction to vectors, matrices, and least squares for engineering applications, offering a wealth of practical examples

Stephen Boyd is the Samsung Professor of Engineering, and Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University,California, with courtesy appointments in the Department of Computer Science, and the Department of Management Science and Engineering. He is the co-author of Convex Optimization (Cambridge, 2004), written with Lieven Vandenberghe.

Part I. Vectors: 1. Vectors; 2. Linear functions; 3. Norm and distance; 4. Clustering; 5. Linear independence; Part II. Matrices: 6. Matrices; 7. Matrix examples; 8. Linear equations; 9. Linear dynamical systems; 10. Matrix multiplication; 11. Matrix inverses; Part III. Least Squares: 12. Least squares; 13. Least squares data fitting; 14. Least squares classification; 15. Multi-objective least squares; 16. Constrained least squares; 17. Constrained least squares applications; 18. Nonlinear least squares; 19. Constrained nonlinear least squares; Appendix A; Appendix B; Appendix C; Appendix D; Index.