Calendar

Date Topic Section Notes
Monday, January 11 First day of class. Introduction to linear algebra. Linear systems, Gauss’s method One.I.1 Jan 11
Wednesday, January 13 Gauss’s method. Describing the solution set. Vectors. One.I.2 Jan 13
Monday, January 18 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr./Idaho Human Rights Day. No classes.    
Wednesday, January 20 Particular and homogeneous solutions. Linear geometry. One.I.3, One.II.1-2 Jan 20
Monday, January 25 Linear geometry. One.II Jan 25
Wednesday, January 27 Cauchy-Schwarz inequality. Reduced row echelon form. One.III Jan 27
Monday, February 1 Vector spaces, subspaces Two.I Feb 1
Wednesday, February 3 Subspaces, span Two.I Feb 3
Monday, February 8 Linear independence Two.II Feb 8
Wednesday, February 10 Bases. Matrix rank Two.III Feb 10
Monday, February 15 Presidents’ Day. No classes.    
Wednesday, February 17 Maps between spaces: Isomorphism Three.I Feb 17
Monday, February 22 Review. Isomorphism Three.I Feb 22
Wednesday, February 24 Homomorphisms Three.II Feb 24
Monday, March 1 Range and null space. Homework. Three.II Mar 1
Wednesday, March 3 Computing linear maps. Three.III Mar 3
Monday, March 8 Matrix operations. Three.IV Mar 8
Wednesday, March 10 Matrix multiplication.   Mar 10
Monday, March 15 Matrix inverses. Homework.   Mar 15
Wednesday, March 17 More about matrix multiplication   Mar 17
Monday, March 22 LU decomposition. Fibonacci numbers. Homework.   Mar 22
Wednesday, March 24 Change of Basis Three.V Mar 24
Monday, March 29 Projections Three.VI Mar 29
Wednesday, March 31 Gram-Schmidt, line of closest fit Four.I Mar 31, Projection and best fit Sage notebook
Monday, April 5 Gram-Schmidt, QR factorization   Apr 5
Wednesday, April 7 Determinants Four.I Apr 7
Monday, April 12 No meeting (Spring Break)    
Wednesday, April 14 No meeting (Spring Break)    
Monday, April 19 Similarity. Eigenvalues   Apr 19
Wednesday, April 21 Eigenvalues   Apr 21
Monday, April 26 Topics on orthogonal matrices. Review.   Apr 26
Wednesday, April 28 SVD. Review.   Apr 28
Friday, April 30 Final exam, take-home part opens    
Tuesday, May 4 Final exam, take-home due (11:59pm)    
Wednesday, May 5 Final exam, in-class part, 12-2pm