Math 110 Syllabus

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.


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