This document summarizes key concepts from a tutorial on mathematics for signal processing and communications. It discusses similarity and diagonalization of matrices, spectral decomposition of Hermitian matrices, singular value decomposition (SVD) and how it can be used for image compression. It also provides an example of how SVD can be used to cancel interference in MIMO wireless systems by pre-multiplying the transmitted signal with one SVD matrix and post-multiplying the received signal with another SVD matrix.