Aaron Greicius

greicius at math dot berkeley dot edu

You will find a link to the main site for the course at math.berkeley.edu/~greicius. In addition, there will be a bSpace page for the course at https://bspace.berkeley.edu, which provides a nice online chat forum, and where you will be able to check your hw and exam grades as I post them.

796 Evans

Tu: 10-11
W: 9-11

The GSI for all sections of Math 110 is Charles Smart. His office hours are from 11-4 on Wednesday and Thursday, in 891 Evans.

Math 54 or an equivalent course in elementary linear algebra.

Briefly put, this course is about vector spaces and the linear transformations between them. Some highlights include: inner products, orthogonal bases, eigenvalues and eigenvectors, diagonalizability, the Cayley-Hamilton Theorem, the Spectral Theorem, and Jordan canonical form.

The required text is Linear Algebra (fourth edition), by Friedberg, Insel and Spence.

The course grade will be based on homework sets, two midterms and a final. The grade will be calculated by taking the following weighted average:
Homework (25%), two midterms (20% each), final (35%).

The two midterms will be 50 minutes long each and will take place in class. They are tentatively scheduled for Monday, March 3 and Monday, April 14. The final exam for SECTION 1 is scheduled for Monday, May 19, from 12:30-3:30. The final exam for SECTION 6 is scheduled for Friday, May 16, from 5-8pm.

In order to allow you to take full advantage of the GSI's office hours, homework assignments will be due every Friday at the beginning of lecture. No late homework will be accepted, but I will drop the two lowest homework scores. Write in complete sentences and staple loose sheets! Solutions will be posted on my web page.

It is very important to keep up with the reading. This course will introduce many abstract and unfamiliar concepts, the understanding of which requires a grasp of many technical definitions. The best way to obtain such a grasp is to read the material I cover in lecture ahead of time.