Professor Anthony Iarrobino
MTH U371 · Linear Algebra
Fall 2006

* Course Information

Course MTH U371 · Linear Algebra, Sec. 1, Seq. 2, Key # 60405
Instructor Anthony Iarrobino
Math U371 F06 Class Notes Web Site    MathU371, Fall 06 Classnotes
Time and Place Mon-Wed-Thurs 9:14-10:30 AM Place TBA
Office 526B Nightingale Hall
Phone (617) 373-5524
Email a.iarrobino@neu.edu
Office Hours Mon 3:30-4:30; Wed 1:30-3:30; Thurs 12-1; or by appointment
Textbook Linear Algebra with Applications, 3/E, by Otto Bretscher, Prentice Hall, 2005
Grade 60% in-class exams, 40% final exam
Prof. Iarrobino Course information MathU371, Fall 06 Syllabus: Info and Policies

* Homework Assignments


    These may be modified: see MathU371, Fall 06 Classnotes website for class summary and actual assignments, updated after each class.

Section Problems
1.1: Linear systems and their geometry 1, 7, 10, 20, 21, 34
1.2: Matrices & Gaussian elimination 2, 4, 5, 7, 18, 20--22, 29--31, 34, 35, 41
1.3: Solutions and matrices 1--8, 10--15, 21--32, 34, 36, 47, 55
2.1: Linear transformations, inverses 1--3, 5, 6, 9, 24--30, 35
2.2: Geometry of linear transformations 1, 4, 6--10, 17, 19, 21, 23, 25, 26, 49
2.3: The inverse of a linear transformation 1--5, 17, 19, 35--41 (odd only)
2.4: Matrix products 3, 5, 11, 13, 16--25, 29, 47, 76
3.1: Subspaces, images and kernels 1, 3, 5, 7, 10, 14, 15, 23, 25, 33, 35, 42, 44, 46
3.2: Bases and linear independence 1, 3, 11--33 (odd only), 24, 34, 37, 39, 46, 49, 52
3.3: Dimension of a subspace 1, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 21, 23, 27--30, 36--39
5.1: Orthonormal bases and projections 1, 3, 5, 13, 15, 17, 27, 35
5.2: Gram-Schmidt process & QR-factorization 5, 7, 19, 21, 33, 35
5.3: Orthogonal matrices 5--8, 13--17, 27--29
5.4 Least squares & data fitting 1, 2, 5, 7, 8, 11, 13, 17--25, 31--33
5.5 Inner product spaces 1, 2, 3b
6.1 Determinants 1--11 (odd only), 17, 27
6.2 Properties of determinants 1,6,24--26,31
7.1 Eigenvectors, iteration of matrices 1--7, 9, 15--22, 34
7.2 Finding eigenvalues 1--13 (odd only), 28
7.3 Finding eigenvectors 1--13 (odd only), 21, 44, 46
7.4 Diagonalization and similarity 1, 3, 5, 17, 31, 33, 35, 41
7.5 Complex eigenvalues 1, 2, 5, 8, 20, 23
7.5 Stability 1, 11, 17
8.1 Symmetric matrices 1, 3, 7
8.2 Quadratic forms 1, 4, 9
8.3 Singular value decomposition 1, 2, 4, 6, 12, 13, 14


* Class Materials



Department of Mathematics  Office:  526B Nightingale Hall  Messages:  (617) 373-2450 
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Home Started:  August 17, 2006
Last modified:  August 17, 2006
With grateful thanks to Prof. Alex Suciu for permission to use the format and much content from his Math U371 pages (Prof. Suciu)

URL:
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