MATH 231 Syllabus

MATH 231 Syllabus

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

LectureDateTopicSection
1Tue 1/28Preliminary remarks, introduction to vectors1.1
2Thu 1/30Vectors in Rn1.1, 1.2
3Tue 2/4Dot product, norm, projection1.2
4Thu 2/6Systems of linear equations2.1
5Tue 2/11Gauss-Jordan elimination2.2
---Tue 2/18No class---
6Thu 2/20Spanning sets, linear independence2.3
7Tue 2/25Introduction to matrix algebra3.1, 3.2
8Thu 2/27More on matrix algebra3.2
9Tue 3/4Elementary matrices and invertibility3.3
---Thu 3/6No class---
10Tue 3/11Review I---
11Thu 3/13Midterm I---
12Tue 3/18Subspaces, basis, dimension3.5
13Thu 3/20Row, column, and null space of a matrix3.5
14Tue 3/25Basic properties of the determinant4.2
15Thu 3/27More on determinants, Cramer's rule4.2
16Tue 4/1Eigenvalues and eigenvectors4.3
17Thu 4/3Similarity and diagonalization4.4
18Tue 4/8Orthogonal complements and projections5.1, 5.2
19Thu 4/10General vector spaces6.1
---Tue 4/15No class---
---Thu 4/17No class---
20Tue 4/22Review II---
21Thu 4/24Midterm II---
22Tue 4/29Subspaces, basis, dimension6.2
23Thu 5/1More on basis and dimension6.2
24Tue 5/6Introduction to linear maps3.6, 6.4
25Thu 5/8More on linear maps6.4
26Tue 5/13Kernel and range of a linear map6.5
27Thu 5/15Review III---


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