Robert E. White

Emeritus Professor of Mathematics
North Carolina State University

(Updated 1-29-23)

Bob

Where am I?

Teaching Activities

Current Research Activities

Vita

Remarks on Retirement at Retirement Reception

Perspectives on Retirement: Ten Years Later.

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Special Two-Semester Linear Algebra Course

(Fall 2012 and Spring 2013)

The first semester will concentrate on basic matrix skills as described in MA 205, and the student should have one semester of calculus.

The second semester MA 493 or MA 591 will build on the first semester and will be a little more theoretical.

There will also be ample time to do some significant applications with about three lectures on each of the following:

SVD and image compression,

Haar transform and introduction to wavelets,

FFT used in filters and Poisson solvers,

Sturm-Liouville BVP and eigenfunctions, and

Previews of related topics.

Students who successfully complete the two-semester course will satisfy the linear algebra requirement and a three-credit math elective.

Students who enroll in the graduate level MA 591 will be required to do a project related to the above applications.

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Monograph on Singular Value Decomposition

This is targeted to undergraduates with knowledge of elementary matrices.

It was written in 2020 and has numerous applications and computations.

The last chapter is an application to COVID-19 models and is a work-in-progress.