MATH 231 Syllabus

MATH 231 Syllabus

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

LectureDateTopicSection
1Tue 1/27Preliminary remarks, introduction to vectors1.1
2Thu 1/29Vectors in Rn1.1, 1.2
3Tue 2/3Dot product, norm, projection1.2
4Thu 2/5Systems of linear equations2.1
5Tue 2/10Gauss-Jordan elimination2.2
---Thu 2/12No class---
---Tue 2/17No class---
6Thu 2/19Spanning sets, linear independence2.3
7Tue 2/24Introduction to matrix algebra3.1, 3.2
8Thu 2/26More on matrix algebra3.2
9Tue 3/3Elementary matrices and invertibility3.3
10Thu 3/5Subspaces, basis, dimension3.5
11Tue 3/10Review I---
12Thu 3/12Midterm I---
13Tue 3/17Row, column, and null space of a matrix3.5
14Thu 3/19Basic properties of the determinant4.2
15Tue 3/24More on determinants, Cramer's rule4.2
16Thu 3/26Eigenvalues and eigenvectors4.3
17Tue 3/31Similarity and diagonalization4.4
---Thu 4/2Spring Recess---
---Tue 4/7Spring Recess---
---Thu 4/9Spring Recess---
18Tue 4/14Orthogonal complements and projections5.1, 5.2
19Thu 4/16Least squares approximation7.3
20Tue 4/21Review II---
21Thu 4/23Midterm II---
22Tue 4/28General vector spaces6.1
23Thu 4/30Subspaces, basis, dimension6.2
24Tue 5/5More on basis and dimension6.2
25Thu 5/7Introduction to linear maps3.6, 6.4
26Tue 5/12More on linear maps6.4
27Thu 5/14Kernel and range of a linear map6.5
28Tue 5/19Review III---


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