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.
week | Date | Sections | Brief Description |
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1 | 3/30 M | Introduction to Mathematical Proofs | |
4/1 W | 1.1-1.2 | Vectors and Vector Spaces | |
4/3 F | 1.2 | Vector Spaces (cont.) | |
2 | 4/6 M | 1.3 | Subspaces |
4/8 W | 1.4 | Linear Combinations and System of Linear Equations | |
4/10 F | 1.5 | Linear Dependence and linear Independence | |
3 | 4/13 M | 1.6 | Bases and Dimension |
4/15 W | 2.1 | Linear Transformations | |
4/17 F | 2.1 | Null Spaces and Ranges | |
4 | 4/20 M | 2.2 | Matrix Representation |
4/22 W | 2.3 | Composition of Linear Transformations | |
4/24 F | 2.4 | Invertibility | |
5 | 4/27 M | 2.4 | Isomorphisms |
4/29 W | 2.5 | Change of Coordinate Matrix | |
5/1 F | 3.1 | Elementary Matrix Operations and Elementary Matrices | |
6 | 5/4 M | 3.2 | The Rank of a Matrix and Matrix Inverses |
5/6 W | 3.3 | System of Linear Equations (Theoretical) | |
5/8 F | 3.3 | System of Linear Equations (Computational) | |
7 | 5/11 M | 4.1 | Determinants of Order 2 |
5/13 W | 4.2 | Determinants of Order n | |
5/15 F | 4.3 | Properties of Determinants | |
8 | 5/18 M | 5.1 | Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors |
5/20 W | 5.1 | Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors (cont.) | |
5/22 F | 5.2 | Diagonalizability | |
9 | 5/25 M | 5.2 | Diagonalizability (cont.) |
5/27 W | 6.1 | Inner Products and Norms | |
5/29 F | 6.2 | Gram-Schmidt Process | |
10 | 6/1 M | 6.3, 6.4 | Normal and Self-adjoint Operators |
6/3 W | 6.5 | Unitary and orthogonal operators |