Math 350: Linear Algebra

Spring 2015




Week 1 Class Topic Homework From
1/22 Vector Spaces

Week 2
1/26 Vector Spaces & Subspaces
1/29 Linear Combinations, Depedence, & Independence HW1 (Solutions)

Week 3
2/2 Depedence & Independence (Cont'), Bases
2/5 Dimension HW2 (Solutions)

Week 4
2/9 Zorn's Lemma & the Basis Extension Theorem
2/12 Linear Transformations HW3 (Solutions)

Week 5
2/16 Rank-Nullity Theorem
2/19 Rank-Nullity (con't) HW4 (Solutions)

Week 6
2/23 Isomorphism & invertibility
2/26 Linear maps & matrices Practice Problems (Solutions)

Week 7
3/2 Exam #1 (Solutions)
3/5 Snow Day! HW5(Solutions)

Week 8
3/9 Linear maps & matrices (Con't), Operators
3/12 Eigenvalues & Eigenvectors HW6(Solutions)

Week 9
3/16 Spring Break
3/19 Spring Break

Week 10
3/23 Eigenvalues & vectors
3/26 Triangularizing bases Practice Problems (Solutions)

Week 11
3/30 Direct Sums
4/2 Exam #2

Week 12
4/6 Generalized Eigenvectors
4/9 Cayley-Hamilton theorem HW7 (Solutions)

Week 13
4/13 Jordan Form
4/16 Inner product spaces HW8 (Solutions)

Week 14
4/20 Inner product spaces (con't)
4/23 Orthonormal bases HW9 (Solutions)

Week 15
4/27 Orthogonal subspaces
4/30 Determinants Practice Problems (Solutions)

Finals Week
5/7 Final Exam (8-11AM)