Project 2 - due 11/22

You may work on this project with one other student and, in fact, are encouraged to do so. If you choose to do so, turn in only one paper with both names on it. Placing both names on the paper attest to both of you having participated in the work. In general, answers alone are not sufficient -- you must show appropriate work and reasoning. You may use available technology, whether your calculators, MATLAB, Mathematica, or any other. Work turned in should be neat, carefully written, and complete.

Materials for these projects are available on-line, at www.laylinalgebra.com/free_site/case_studies/cs_index.html

You should choose one of the following to do:

  1. Hill Substitution Ciphers
  2. Error-Detecting and Error-Correcting Codes
  3. Dynamical Systems and the Spotted Owls
  4. The Fibonacci Sequence and Generalizations
  5. Findng the Roots of a Polynomial with Eigenvalues
  6. The Singular Value Decomposition and Image Processing
You may consider another project if there's one in particular that you really like. Consult with me before doing so!

For the project you choose, read the associated material from the text, the material in the pdf file, and work the problems posed in the pdf.

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