Our Teaching Page
has important information for my students.
(It has the
Notes, Exams and Links
from all of my previous courses.)
The Teaching Page has my schedule,
LOR guidelines,
and Usually Useful Pamphlets.
One of them is the
Further information is at our
class-archive URL
(I email this private URL directly to students).
In all of my courses, attendance is absolutely required (excepting illness and religious holidays). In the unfortunate event that you miss a class, you are responsible to get all Notes / Announcements / TheWholeNineYards from a classmate, or several. All my classes have a substantial class-participation grade.
Resources on The Web.
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[Date]Have read the beginning of w:Characteristic_polynomial. The defn we'll use is in the Cayley-Hamilton pamphlet (pdf).
An example of computing an eigenbasis.Updateon the cover.)
| Author: | David Lay | ISBN: | 0-321-28713-4 |
| Year: | 2006 | Publisher: | Addison-Wesley |
Voici the final project (pdf) It was due, slid u n d e r
my office door (Little Hall 402, Northeast corner) ,
2pm, Friday 7Dec2007 (Pearl Harbor Day) The final project must be carefully typed.
At all times have a paper copy you can hand-in; I do
NOT accept
electronic versions.
Print out a copy each day, so that you always have the latest version to
hand-in; this, in case your printer or computer fails.
(You are too old for My dog ate my homework.
)
Please follow the guidelines on the
Checklist 
(pdf, 3pages) to earn full credit.
Applause and acclaim greeted the gorgeous Prereq-A (pdf) with its clean lines, and minimalistic two-tone format. This was the test of prerequisite knowledge.
Smiles and nods of approbation met Class-C (pdf), with its gracious yet subtle employment of Greek letters, and its bold use of vertical lines as tasteful accents. A Smash Hit!, say all the critics.
Following the box-office success of the two earlier exams, the critics are unanimous in proclaiming this a Glorious Hat-Trick unprecedented in the annals of exam-making. Get YOUR copy today!
Even more Astonishingly, one earns genuine coin-of-the-realm CP points (CP = "class participation") by posting a solution or improving a solution.
Available are the sometimes-challenging Extra Problems (text),
Usually Useful Pamphlets.)
The various Linear Algebra czars who help out.
| Projector | Phone | Chalk | Blackboard | H-Probs | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| William | Jason | Christopher | Brendan | Greg & Steven | Jason |
One of our tools is the textbook Linear Algebra with Applications (2nd edition), Author: David Lay.
We will cover most of chapters 1-6, as well as some material that I'll introduce.Exams: A-class (pdf) and B-class (pdf) and the final exam, C-class (pdf).
Our syllabus (pdf) has a course outline.
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Exams and ProjectsProject Sum, had you write Maple or Matlab code
to take as input, a natural number K. Your program used
rref
to compute the polynomial PK(n),
which is the sum of the Kth powers
of the first n integers.
Project Interpolate (pdf) has you use
rref to compute a minimum degree polynomial
passing through specified points.
Project First-Order Estimate (pdf) has you use Cramer's theorem to estimate the errors in a column vector x. It is the solution to a matrix eqn. Ax=b, but there is some uncertainty in some of the entries of A.
A brief study guide (pdf) from when I taught Linear Algebra in 1993.
