Tentative Schedule
Week of | Tuesday | Thursday | Topics |
8/25 | 1.1 | 1.2, 1.3 | Sets and functions, Vector Spaces, subspaces. |
9/1 | 1.4, 1.5 | 1.5, 1.6 | Linear combinations, linear dependence, basis, dimension. |
9/8 | 1.6 | 2.1 | Dimension. Linear transformations, nullspace, range. |
9/15 | 2.2, 2.3 | 2.3, 2.4 | Matrices, composition and multiplication, invertibility and isomorphisms. |
9/22 | 2.5, 2.6 | 3.1, 3.2 | Coordinate change, dual spaces. Elementary operations, ranks and inverses of matrices. |
9/29 | 3.3, 3.4 | Midterm | Systems of linear equations. Midterm on chapters 1 and 2. |
10/06 | 3.4 | 4.1, 4.2 | More on systems. Determinants. |
10/13 | 4.3--4.5 | 5.1 | Properties of determinants. Eigenvector and eigenvalues |
10/20 | 5.2 | 5.4 | Diagonalizability. Invariant subspaces. |
10/27 | 5.4 | 6.1 | Cayle-Hamilton theorem. Inner products and norms. |
11/03 | 6.2 | Midterm | Orthogonal Projections and Gram-Schmidt. Midterm on chapter 3, 4 and 5.. |
11/10 | Holiday | 6.3, 6.4 | Adjoints and normality. |
11/17 | 6.4, 6.5 | 7.1 | Unitary and orthogonal operators. Jordan canonical form. |
11/24 | 7.1, 7.3 | Holiday | More on the Jordan canonical form. Minimal polynomial. |
12/02 | 7.3 | 7.4 | Minimal polynomial, rational canonical form. |
The above schedule is just a rough guide and subject to change as the course progresses.