Here are some potential topics for your project/paper on an application of linear algebra. So far these are all taken from the textbook. I’ll be post more topics over the next couple days, so check back on this thread.
But in any case take a look at these sections of the textbook to get an idea of the wide variety of linear algebra applications. Looks through the examples as well as the exercises:
1.6: applications in economics, chemistry, network flows
1.10: linear algebra models for nutrition, electrical networks, population/migration (difference equations)
2.6: more about the economics “input-output” model introduced in Sec 1.6 (actually first introduced in the intro to Ch 1)
2.7: applications to computer graphics
4.8: more on difference equations – applications to signal processing/filtering
4.9: Markov chains (more on migration models, including a voting model)
5.6: Discrete dynamical systems (primary example is a predator-prey model)
5.7: Applications to differential equations
6.6: Linear models (statistics – regression; examples from various application domains)
6.8: Applications of inner product spaces (more statistics)
7.5: Image processing (and even more statistics)
Note that some of these sections include “Further Reading” references (2.7, 4.8, 5.6, 6.6, 7.5)
