Math 250

Instructor: Surya Teja Gavva

Lectures: Monday, Thursday 9:50 am- 11:10 am, Canvas (Zoom).

Zoom meeting information can be accessed through Canvas.

Office: Canvas https://canvas.rutgers.edu

Office Hours: Tuesday and Friday 2-3:30 pm.

Please email for additional appointments.

TA at Large: There are additional office hours by our TA Yuxuan Yang

Website: I’ll post all the announcements, assignments, and other resources for the class on Canvas/Modules. Please make sure you check the site regularly.

Prerequisites: CALC2 or 01:640:136 or 138.

Textbook and References: Spence, Insel & Friedberg Elementary LinearAlgebra: A Matrix Approach, 2nd Edition ISBN # 978-0-13-187141-0, Prentice-Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458. More references will be posted on Canvas/Modules

Homework: Suggested HW from the Textbook

Matlab: There will be 6-7 Matlab assignments for submission.

Course Objectives: This course covers introductory topics in linear algebra with emphasis on matrices. The topics include Vectors in n-space, systems of linear equations, Gaussian elimination, span and linear independence of a set of vectors, matrix algebra, determinants, subspaces of n-space, basis and dimension, eigenvalues and eigenvectors, diagonalization of a matrix, the geometry of vectors, projections, orthogonal sets of vectors, symmetric matrices, and applications.