MAT 2550
  
Spring 2020

Dr. Delman



Syllabus




Announcements


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Update for May 2: Exam week!  I have sent everyone the final exam, which you will also find below.  I have also posted solutions to the end-of-term exam.  Best wishes for success with all your final exams!




Assignments:

Initial Assignment

Due Wednesday, January 22:  Assignment 1:  Difranza & Gagliardi, Section 1.1 # 3, 7, 11, 17, 21, 25, 27, 29, 33 (see example 6 on p. 11), 40, 41;  Section 1.2 # 3, 7, 9, 13, 17, 41, 45, 47, 51.

Due Wednesday, January 29:  Assignment 2:  Treil # 1.1-1.8 (p. 5);  D & G,

Section 3.1 # 1, 5, 15.

Due Monday, February 3;  Assignment 3:  D & G,
Section 1.3 # 5, 11, 15, 21, 22, 27, 31, 33, 35, 39;  Section 1.8 # 1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 11, 19, 20.

Due Monday, February 10:  Assignment 4: 
D&G, Section 2.1 # 7-10, 13, 15, 19, 23, 27, 31, 33-40;  Section 2.2 # 3, 5, 7, 9, 13, 15, 17, 21-25, 29, 31, 33, 35, 36, 39;  Section 2.3 # 7, 9, 15, 17, 29, 31, 39.

Due Friday, February 21:  Assignment 5: 
D&G, Section 3.2 # 3, 9, 15, 19, 45, 47, 48, 50;  Section 3.3 # 13, 17, 38;  Treil # 2.1, 2.2, 2.5, 2.6.

Due  Monday, February 24:  Assignment 6:  D & G Section 4.1 #
3, 5, 11-14, 17, 23, 25, 29, 33, 35, 42, 44, 45;  Section 4.2 # 3, 7, 11, 17, 19, 23, 25, 27, 31, 37, 39. 

Due Friday, March 6:  Assignment 7:  Treil #
3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 5.1, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.7, 5.8.

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Due Monday,  April 6:  All exercises in Section 3 of Properties of Functions, in preparation for class discussion.

Due Friday, April 10:  All exercises in Section 5 of Properties of Functions, to be submitted for grading and comments.

Due Friday, April 17:  Inverse Maps and Their Matrix Representations (all exercises)

Due Monday, April 20:  Assignment on Rank and Nullity (all exercises)

Due Wednesday, April 22:  Inverse Matrices and Change-of-basis Matrices (all exercises)

Due Wednesday, April 29 (for class discussion, not to be collected): 
D&G, Section 5.1 # 7, 11, 13, 17-19, 23;  Section 5.2 # 19, 20, 29.

Practice end-of-term exam

Practice end-of-term exam solutions
Exams:

Midterm Exam (blank, for study and practice)


End-of-term Exam solutions

Final Exam

Final Exam .tex file
References:

Linear Algebra, by Jim Hefferon

Linear Algebra, by E. Kowalski

Linear Algebra Done Wrong, by Sergei Treil
Solutions and Supplementary Materials:

Field Axioms

On-line Review Assignment

Logical Language, a Primer

Properties of Functions

Two Important Theorems on Dimension




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