Math 22: Linear Algebra with Applications

Spring 2024

Syllabus

The following is a tentative syllabus for the course. This page will be updated irregularly.
On the other hand, the weekly syllabus contained in the Homework Assignments page will always be accurate.

Lecture Section in Text Brief Description
Day 1 1.1 Systems of Linear Equations
Day 2 1.2 Row Reduction and Echelon Forms
Day 3 1.3 & 1.4 Vector Equations; Matrix Equations
Day 4 1.4 -1.5 The Matrix Equation Ax=b and Solution Sets of Linear Equations
Day 5 1.7 Linear Independence
Day 6 4.1, 4.2 Vector spaces, linear transformation, null space, column space
Day 7 4.2, 1.9 Definition of Linear Transformations, Kernel and Range and the standard matrix
Day 8 1.9, 2.1 Reading Injectivity and Surjectivity of T: Rn --> Rm from the matrix and Matrix Operations
Day 9 2.2 Inverse of a Matrix
Day 10 2.3 Invertible Matrix Theorem
Day 11 4.3 Linear independent sets; bases
Week 4 MIDTERM #1
Day 12 2.9 Coordinates, Dimension and rank
Day 13 4.4/5.4/4.7 Matrix of a transformation, Change of coordinates matrix
Day 14 4.7 Change of coordinates matrix and composition of linear transformations
Day 15 3.1, 3.2 Determinant and its Properties of Determinants
Day 16 5.1, 5.2 Eigenvalues and Characteristic Equation
Day 17 5.2, 5.3 Characteristic Equation, Diagonalization
Day 18 5.3, 5.4 Diagonalization and linear transformations
Day 19 6.1, 6.2 Inner products and Orthogonality
Day 20 6.3 Projections
Week 7 MIDTERM #2
Day 21 6.4 Gram-Schmidt Process
Day 22 7.1 Diagonalization of Symmetric Matrices
Day 23 4.9, 5.8 Intro to Markov Chains, Iteration Method for Eigenvalues
Day 24 4.9, 5.8 Application: Markov Chains & Google's page rank
Day 25 7.4 Application: Singular Value decomposition (SVD)
Day 26 7.5 Principal Component Analysis (PCA) & Eigenfaces
Day 27 No section in book Application -- JPEG compression algorithm.
Day 28 No section in book Review


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