Course: | MTH 1230, Linear Algebra |
Instructor: | Alex Suciu (Coordinator) |
Time and Place: | Mon., Wed. & Th. 9:15 - 10:20 AM, in 245 RY |
Office Hours: | Mon 12:30 - 1:30 PM and Th 1:00 - 2:00 PM, in 441 LA |
Textbook: | Linear Algebra with Applications by Otto Bretscher, Prentice Hall, 1997 |
Grade: | 60% in-class tests, 40% final exam |
Chapter 1: | Systems of linear equations, matrices, and Gaussian elimination. |
Chapter 2: | Linear transformations, inverses, products. |
Chapter 3: | Images and kernels, subspaces of euclidean space, bases and linear independence, dimensions. |
Chapter 4: | Orthonormal bases, Gram-Schmidt process and QR-factorization, orthogonal transformations, least squares and data fitting. |
Chapter 5: | Determinants. |
Chapter 6: | Eigenvalues and eigenvectors. |
Sample quizzes and exams can be found here. Current quizzes, as well as some solutions and further samples, can be found below.
Quiz 1 | |||
Quiz 2 | Make-up Quiz 2 | ||
Sample Quiz 3 | Quiz 3 | ||
Quiz 4 | Answers to Quiz 4 | ||
Sample Quiz 5 | Quiz 5 | Answers to Quiz 5 |
Here are some of the class handouts:
Correlation coefficient | Gram-Schmidt process |
And here is the Final exam.
Department of Mathematics | Office: | 441 Lake Hall | Messages: | (617) 373-2450 |
Northeastern University | Phone: | (617) 373-4456 | Fax: | (617) 373-5658 |
Boston, MA, 02115 | Email: | alexsuciu@neu.edu | Directions |
Created: March 30, 1999. Last modified: June 10, 1999
URL: http://www.math.neu.edu/~suciu/mth1230/linalg.sp99.html |