Group: Timothy VanAusdal and Erik Martinez Title: solving sudoku using linear algrebra Abstract: We will be attempting to use linear algebra and some other intuitive knowledge that we have to create a program that will solve a sudoku puzzle using only linear algebra techniques. Because we know that there are 9 unique columns, 9 unique rows, and 9 unique boxes and because we know that all of them will contain one and only one of each number from 1-9 we know that we can create 27 different equations where all of the variables in it will add up to 45. (1+2+...+9) . Using this knowledge and our knowledge of linear algebra we will attempt to see if we can solve a sudoku puzzle by creating an 82x81 augmented matrix .