Math 235: Linear Algebra

Spring 2015

General Information

Instructor: Chris Staecker (Personal Homepage)

Email: cstaecker@fairfield.edu

Office: BNW 16

Office Hours: WF 10-11, TWF 12-12:30, W 12-1, TF 1:30-2

Textbook: Shifrin & Adams, Linear Algebra: A Geometric Approach (second edition)

Class Meetings: TF 12:30-1:20, W 1:00-1:50 BNW 334

Final Exam: Tuesday, May 5, 11:30 AM

Other Materials

• Syllabus (pdf) LaTeX source

Coming Attractions

1/28: Homework #1 due

Section 1.1: 2, 4, 5, 6abdfh, 9a, 10c, 13, 25a
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2/4: Homework #2 due

Section 1.2: 1abc, 2a, 3, 4, 6, 11, 13
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2/11: Homework #3 due

Section 1.3: 3ab, 6
Section 1.4: 2, 3e, 4bd, 7a, 11b
Section 1.5: 2a
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2/18: Homework #4 due

Section 1.5: 3b, 8a, 12abde
Section 1.6: 5 (see "example 2" for inspiration)
Section 2.1: 1agh
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2/25: Homework #5 due

Section 2.1: 7ab, 8ac (do the induction), 13a
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2/27: Exam 1

 

3/18: Homework #6 due

Section 2.2: 1, 2, 4acd, 6, 11c
Section 2.3: 1ad, 2a (just i and ii)
Section 2.4: 3be, 6a
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3/25: Homework #7 due

Section 2.5: 1ad, 2ab, 6 ("symmetric" means A = A^T), 20
Section 3.1: 1beg, 4, 5, 15a
Section 3.2: 4b, 7a
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4/2: Homework #8 due

Section 3.3: 2abc, 3cd, 4a (see definition of "coordinates" on p. 150), 5a, 8
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4/9: Homework #9 due

Section 3.4: 1a, 3a, 8abd, 12
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4/10: Exam 2

 

4/22: Homework #10 due

Section 3.6: 1, 2ab, 3acf (just say if it's a subspace), 6b
Section 4.1: 10 (don't discuss the errors), 11 (see p. 196 for a trick on how to do this)
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5/5: Homework #11 due

Section 5.1: 1ac, 10, 11
Section 6.1: 1ah, 3
Section 6.2: 1 (just a & h)
Section 6.3: 1 (just do k=10)
Finally, compute the Page Rank vector for this directed graph.

5/5: Final Exam, 11:30 AM