Department of Mathematics
Math 225 - Spring 2010

Introductory Matrix Theory
Section  Q1 TuTh  12:00 -  12:50pm in 156 Henry

 

Syllabus | Grading | Resources | Homework | Exams and Quizzes | News and Announcements | Lecture Log  

News and Information

1/19/10:   Welcome to the class!

2/12/10:   The first midterm exam will be on Thursday February 18, in class. See here for details.

2/22/10: No quiz this week. The next quiz will be on Thursday March 4

3/23/10:

  • The second midterm will be on Tuesday, April 6 (NOT on Thursday April 1). See here for details.
  • There will not be a quiz next week, so your next test will be the midterm on April 6.

    • 4/8/10: The next quiz will be on Thursday April 15.

    4/13/10: The grade scheme for Midterm 2 has been changed: the new total number of points is 95. See here for more details.


    Instructor

    Professor Steven Bradlow
    E-mail: bradlow@illinois.edu
    Office: 322 Illini Hall
    Office Hours: Tuesday 10am-11am, Thursday 1pm-2pm or by appointment

    Text

    Linear Algebra and its Applications  (3rd Edition, Update) by David C. Lay (Addison-Wesley, 2006)

    Syllabus

    Chapter 1, Sections 1-7
    Chapter 2, Sections 1,2,3,6
    Chapter 3, Sections 1-3
    Chapter 4, Sections 1,2,3,5,6
    Chapter 5, Sections 1-3
    Chapter 6, Sections 1-6

    Grading

    Your grade for the course will be determined by a weighted average of your scores for weekly quizzes, 2 midterms and a final.   The weights of each will be:

    Quizzes 15%
    Midterms 1 25%
    Midterms 2 25%
    Final 35%
    Letter grades for the course will be `curved', with the class average corresponding to the boundary between a C and a B.

    Resources

    Study guides, review materials, data sets, case studies and applications, and additional resources can be found here at a website for the course textbook.

    Homework

    Homework will be  posted at this website.  The homework will not be graded but this doesn't mean it's unimportant! The best (maybe the only) way to learn the course material is to work examples. As added incentive to do the homework, all exams (midterms and final) will include questions either taken directly from, or modeled closely on, the homework sets.

    Homework 1 Homework 2 Homework 3 Homework 4 Homework 5 Homework 6

    Homework 7 Homework 8 Homework 9 Homework 10 Homework 11

    Exams

    There will be weekly quizzes, two midterms and a final exam. Dates and syllabi will be announced at least one week in advance. The (tentative) dates for the midterms are Thursday February 18 and April 1 (seriously).

    Quizzes

    Unless otherwise stated, sections are from the text

    Quiz Date Sections covered Solutions
    1 Thursday January 28 Sections 1.1 and 1.2 here
    2 Thursday February 4 Sections 1.3 and 1.4 here
    3 Thursday February 11 Sections 1.5 and 1.6 here
    4 Thursday March 4 Sections 2.2 and 2.3 here
    5 Thursday March 11 Sections 3.1 - 3.3 here
    6 Thursday March 18 Sections 4.1 - 4.2 here
    7 Thursday April 15 Sections 4.5 - 4.6 here
    8 Thursday April 22 Sections 5.1 - 5.3 here
    9 Thursday April 29 Sections 6.1 - 6.3 here

    Midterm 1

    When:  Thursday February 18 (in class)
    On What: Sections 1.1-1.7, 2.1. See here for a summary of the main ideas and results covered in these sections
    Solutions: here

    Midterm 2

    When:  Tuesday April 6 (in class)
    On What: Sections 2.2, 2.3, 2.6, 3.1-3.3, 4.1-4.3. See here for a summary of the main ideas and results covered in these sections
    Solutions: here . Note that parts (a) and (c) in Question 7, and parts (b) and (e) in Question 8 have been deleted. These required you to know what is meant by the dimension of a vector space, i.e. they required knowledge outside the syllabus for this midterm. My apologies for this. In the adjusted grading scheme Question 7 is worth 9 points and Question 8 is worth 16 (2 points per part). The new exam total is thus 95 points .

    Final

    When:  7:00pm-10:00pm on Friday May 14, 2010 (in 156 Henry)
    On What: Everything covered in class. See here for a summary of the main ideas and results covered in these sections

    Lecture Log

    Unless otherwise stated, sections are from the text

    Lecture
    Date
    Sections (to be) covered
    1 Tuesday January 19 1.1
    2 Thursday January 21 1.2
    3 Tuesday January 26 1.2, 1.3
    4 Thursday January 28 1.3
    5 Tuesday February 2 1.4
    6 Thursday February 4 1.5, 1.6
    7 Tuesday February 9 1.6, 1.7
    8 Thursday February 11 1.7, 2.1
    9 Tuesday February 16 2.1, 2.2
    10 Thursday February 18 MIDTERM 1
    11 Tuesday February 23 2.3
    12 Thursday February 25 2.6, 3.1
    13 Tuesday March 2 3.1, 3.2
    14 Thursday March 4 3.3
    15 Tuesday March 9 4.1
    16 Thursday March 11 4.2
    17 Tuesday March 16 4.2, 4.3
    18 Thursday March 18 4.3
    ***** SPRING BREAK *****************
    19 Tuesday March 30 4.3, 4.5
    20 Thursday April 1 4.5, 4.6
    21 Tuesday April 6 MIDTERM 2
    22 Thursday April 8 4.6, 5.1
    23 Tuesday April 13 5.1, 5.2
    24 Thursday April 15 5.2, 5.3
    25 Tuesday April 20 6.1, 6.2
    26 Thursday April 22 6.2, 6.3
    27 Tuesday April 27 6.3, 6.4
    28 Thursday April 29 6.5
    29 Tuesday May 4 6.6

    Last modified May 3, 2010