MATH 231 Syllabus

MATH 231 Syllabus

Here is a version of the course syllabus subject to minor change:

LectureDateTopicSection
1Tue 8/26Preliminary remarks, introduction to vectors1.1
2Thu 8/28Vectors in Rn1.1, 1.2
3Tue 9/2Dot product, norm, projection1.2
4Thu 9/4Systems of linear equations2.1
5Tue 9/9Gauss-Jordan elimination2.2
6Thu 9/11Spanning sets, linear independence2.3
7Tue 9/16Introduction to matrix algebra3.1, 3.2
8Thu 9/18More on matrix algebra3.2
---Tue 9/23No class---
9Thu 9/25Elementary matrices and invertibility3.3
10Tue 9/30Subspaces, basis, dimension3.5
---Thu 10/2No class---
11Tue 10/7Review I---
12Thu 10/9Midterm I---
---Tue 10/14No class---
13Thu 10/16Row, column, and null space of a matrix3.5
14Tue 10/21Basic properties of the determinant4.2
15Thu 10/23More on determinants, Cramer's rule4.2
16Tue 10/28Eigenvalues and eigenvectors4.3
17Thu 10/30Similarity and diagonalization4.4
18Tue 11/4Orthogonal complements and projections5.1, 5.2
19Thu 11/6Least squares approximation7.3
20Tue 11/11Review II---
21Thu 11/13Midterm II---
22Tue 11/18General vector spaces6.1
23Thu 11/20Subspaces, basis, dimension6.2
24Tue 11/25More on basis and dimension6.2
---Thu 11/27No class---
25Tue 12/2Introduction to linear maps3.6, 6.4
26Thu 12/4More on linear maps6.4
27Tue 12/9Kernel and range of a linear map6.5
28Thu 12/11Review III---


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