Steven J. Leon
Chancellor Professor

UMass Dartmouth Scientific Computing Group

Specializations:
Scientific Computing, Linear Algebra, and Numerical Optimization

Contact Info
Office Location: LARTS 394D
Phone: 508.999.8320
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Vita 

Course Information

Fall 2011

• MTH 204 Computational Experiments in Mathematics  
•   MTH 212 Differential Equations 
•   MTH 221 Linear Algebra 

Spring 2012

• MTH 212 Differential Equations Section 04
  
• MTH 353 Applied Linear Algebra Section 01
  
• MTH 474/574 Numerical Optimization
  

Upcoming Events

• International Linear Algebra Annual Meeting, Providence, Rhode Island, 2013
  Local organizing committee: Tom Bella, URI, Vadim Olshevsky, UConn, Michael Neumann, UConn, Steven Leon, UMass Dartmouth

Books

• Linear Algebra with Applications 8th Edition

• 8th Edition   8th edition International   
  US Edition
  International Edition
  

• Pearson Companion Web site for the 8th edition

  This page contains supplemental features for students and instructors.
  
  
  • Supplemental Chapters: (Click on chapter title to download)
    

  Chapter_8_Iterative_Methods  
  Chapter_9_Canonical Forms 
  

  • Leon8Errata 
    

• Companion manuals (partial list)
  • ATLAST Computer Exercises for Linear Algebra, 2nd edition by Steven J. Leon, Eugene Herman, and Richard Faulkenberry.  
    
  • Student Study Guide, 8E by Steven J. Leon.
    
  • Visualizing Linear Algebra using Maple by Sandra Keith
    
  • Understanding Linear Algebra using MATLAB by Irwin and Margaret Kleinfeld 
    
  • Linear Algebra Labs with MATLAB, 3rd ed. by David R. Hill and David E. Zitarelli 
    
  • A Maple Supplement for Linear Algebra by John Maloney
    

All companion manuals listed below are available at little or no extra charge when ordered as a bundle with the 8th edition. To order a 2-book bundles use the link,  Leon 8e packages, or contact your Pearson sales representative to obtain the ISBN for the bundle. 

• Previous Editions of the Linear Algebra Book

First Edition First edition Second Edition Third edition Fourth edition
Fifth Edition   Sixth Edition   Seventh Edition      
Fifth edition Sixth edition Seventh edition  

• Translations

Second edition Armenian translation   Third edition Spanish translation   Fourth Edition Portuguese Translation   Fifth edition Indonesian translation
Armenian edition Spanish edition Portuguese edition Indonesian edition
Fifth edition Korean translation   Sixth Edition traditional Chinese translation   Sixth edition Korean translation    
Korean edition Chinese edition (Taiwan) Korean edition  

Seventh Edition Simplified Chinese   Seventh Edition Korean translation   Seventh Edition Traditional Chinese    
Chinese Mainland China Korean edition Chinese edition (Taiwan)

8th edition Portuguese translation   8th edition Traditional Chinese, Taiwan   8th edition Chinese translation, simplified
Leon8ChEng  
Portuguese edition 
Chinese edition (Taiwan)

Chinese edition (simplified)

English edition published in mainland China

• International Editions
  
  

• International Third edition 3rd International 4th International Edition   * 4th International  Fifth International Edition
  5th International Sixth International edition
  6th International
  Sixth International edition PR China
  6th International Seventh Edition International
  7th International Seventh International edition PR China
  7th International 7th Edition International with traditional Chinese annotations
  7th international
  

Custom Editions

Custom edition UCI
UC Irvine Edition Custom editon UC Irvine
UC Irvine Edition Texas A & M custom edition with Susan Colley
Leon and Colley, TAMU

Arizona State Custom 7th edition ASU 7th Edition

* I do not own a copy of the 4th International edition pictured above. There are also custom editions not pictured above that I do not have in my collection and there may be additional translations and international editions that I do not know about. If you have information or cover scans of editions not pictured above please send them to me. I would like to find copies of any missing books to add to my collection.  If you have a copy of an edition that I need for my collection and would like to sell or trade it, let me know. In trade I can offer an unused hard cover copy of the 8th edition of the book.

Book Calendars
To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the publication of Linear Algebra with Applications we made up a special linear algebra calendar for the year 2010. The calendar featured covers from various editions of the book. We have now included linear algebra calendars for the years 2011 and 2012.

LACalendar2010
LACalendar2011 
LACalendar2012  

Ongoing Projects 

• CSUMS: Computational Sciences training for Undergraduates in the Mathematical Sciences
  NSF sponsored program for undergraduate research at UMass Dartmouth
  CSUMS Press Release
• ATLAST ProjectMATLAB News and Notes is printed twice a year and distributed distributed to the entire intermatioanl users of the MATLAB software package (over a million users). The October 2006 issue featured a short article about the ATLAST Project. ( See Preprint) 
• Contributing Editor for  IMAGE, The Bulletin of the International Linear Algebra Society (ILAS)   Editor of the Education Corner section of IMAGE.
• Chair of the International Linear Algebra Society Education Committee, ILAS Education page
• Scientific Computing Seminars at Brown University

Past Events 

• Third Annual New England Numerical Analysis Conference,
  UMass Dartmouth, April 16, 2011 

  Featured speakers included Gil Strang, MIT, Ilse Ipsen, North Carolina State University, and Homer Walker, WPI
  Organizing Committee: Steve Leon (Chair), Yanlai Chen, Cheng Wang

Joint Mathematics Meetings in New Orleans

Six undergraduate UMass Dartmouth attended the conference under the supervision of Prof. Steven Leon.
Five of the students gave poster presentations of their research.

Professor Leon gave a talk on A_Second_Undergraduate_Course_in_Linear_Algebra 

Gene Golub Memorial Conference
UMass Dartmouth, February 29 and March 1, 2008

A tribute to Gene H. Golub (1932-2007), Pioneer in Computational Mathematics
Golub_Conference_Program     

Relevant Links:

• UMass Dartmouth tribute - Gene Golub Remembered
• Golub Around the World
• Golub Memorial Blog Site
• Gene H. Golub Biography by Chen Greif
• The Golub Tree
• ISI Highly Cited Researchers listing for Gene Golub
• New York Times Obituary
• Golub least squares lecture video

Links of General Interest

• NETLIB
• National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
• IMAGE - The Bulletin of the International Linear Algebra Society