a good lecture on SVD (if you haven't done it in your linear algebra class)

To: Rao Kambhampati <rao@asu.edu>
Subject: a good lecture on SVD (if you haven't done it in your linear algebra class)
From: Subbarao Kambhampati <rao@asu.edu>
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 21:05:36 -0700
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You might want to check out this lecture on SVD from Gilbert Strang's course on linear algebra, if want to get a good background on the development

http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Mathematics/18-06Spring-2005/VideoLectures/detail/lecture29.htm

rao