M346, Applied Linear Algebra


  • Unique number: 57065
  • Meeting time and place: MWF 9-10,  RLM 7.116.
  • Web page: http://www.ma.utexas.edu/users/sadun/S09/346
  • Professor: Lorenzo Sadun, RLM 9.114, x1-7121
  • email: sadun@math.utexas.edu
  • Office hours: Th11-12, F3-5   I generally keep an open door and welcome visitors at all times. 
  • Textbook: Applied Linear Algebra, 2nd edition, by Lorenzo Sadun. Do not get the first edition! The first edition had a huge number of printing errors, the second edition has a lot of new content, and the second edition is priced at about half the first edition.
  • Prerequisites: M311 or M340L or M341 or permission of instructor
  • Syllabus: Chapters 1 through 8, with occasional skipped sections
  • Homework: There will be weekly problem sets, due in class.  At the beginning of the term these will be due on Monday, but we may switch to another day later on.
  • Exams: There will be three in-class midterm exams, on February 11, March 27 and April 24, plus a final exam on May 19, 9-12.   These exams will all be closed book. However, each student will be allowed to bring a single letter-sized ``crib sheet'' (2-sided) to each midterm, and 2 crib sheets to the final. These notes must be HANDWRITTEN ORIGINALS - NO XEROXING ALLOWED.
  • Grading: Each midterm counts 20%. The final exam counts 40%. The homework, taken together, counts 20%. At the end of the term I will drop your lowest 20%. The final grade distribution is neither a straight scale nor a fixed curve. It depends on how well the class does as a whole, but I hope to give mostly A's and B's.
  • Disabilities: The University of Texas at Austin provides upon request appropriate academic accommodations for qualified students with disabilities. For more information, contact the Office of the Dean of Students at 471-6259, 471-4641 TTY
  • Homework # 1: (due Monday, January 26) Chapter 1, page 7, exercises 1, 2, 5. For extra credit, do the "exploration" on page 8.

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