MATH 231 Syllabus

MATH 231 Syllabus

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

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


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