ECE 512: Supplementary Material/Handouts

Math Topics

This material is borrowed from John Hopfield's CNS 185 course web site and Sam Roweis webpage at Caltech.

• Linear Algebra Review
• Matrix and Gaussian Identities
• Optimization: Form Steepest Gradient Descent to Levenberg-Marquardt
• Liapunov Functions
• Some stats about the brain

More Math Topics:

This material has been developed by Professor Hassoun at Wayne State. The following documents can be opened as Microsoft Word .doc documents. The ones marked by a "*" are also interactive with Matlab.

• Introductory Eigenvalue/Eigenvector Concepts
• Taylor Series and Application to Determining Extreme Points of Nonlinear Multivariate Functions*

Animations:

This material has been developed by Professor Hassoun at Wayne State. The following documents can be opened as .avi files using multimedia players

• Probability of linear dichatomies (compressed file)