Applied Linear Algebra, M346, Fall 2001

FINAL REVIEW SESSION: Monday December 17, 11:00am RLM 10.166 (my office)

FINAL EXAM: Tuesday December 18, 9:00-12:00, RLM 7.104

Professor: Irene M. Gamba

Classes: Tuesday and Thursday 12:30 - 2:00P, RLM 5.116

Website: http://www.ma.utexas.edu/users/gamba

Office: RLM 10.166

Office Hours: Thrusday 10:30 to 11:30 and by appointment

On Thursdays 10:30 to 11:30, room RLM 9.166 will be available for consultations, (with the exception of Sept.27, Nov.1, and Dec.6.), in case my office gets full. Please check in both rooms.

Phone: 471-7150

Email: gamba@math.utexas.edu

Text: Applied Linear Algebra; the Decoupling Principle, by Lorenzo Sadun (strongly recommended) and Linear Algebra , by Peter Lax (recommended) .  We will attempt to cover the first 8 chapters of Sadun's book, with occasional sections skipped.
Use of Matlab will be required on some assignments.

Prerequisites: M340L or M341 or M311 or my permission.  I expect you to have a good feel for manipulating matrices, especially row reduction, but also taking determinants. I also expect you to have seen abstract vector spaces and linear transformations, but some rustiness is expected -- we'll be reviewing that.  I don't assume you've seen eigenvalues and eigenvectors at all; we'll do them from scratch.

* Handouts and Other Course Information

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Course Schedule

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