Department
of Mathematics
Math 225 - Fall 2005
Introductory Matrix Theory
Section M1 TuTh
Instructor
| Text | Syllabus | Grading | Resources | Homework | Exams | News
and Announcements | Lecture Log
Professor
Steven Bradlow [bradlow@uiuc.edu]
Office: 259 Altgeld Hall
Office Hours: Wednesday
Linear Algebra and its Applications (3rd Edition) by David C. Lay (Addison-Wesley, 2002)
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 1-3, 5-6
Your grade for the course will be determined by a weighted average of your
scores for homework, midterms and a final. The weights of each will
be:
Homework = 10%
Midterm1 = 25%
Midterm2 = 25%
Final
= 40%
Study guides, review materials, data sets, case studies and applications, and additional resources can be found at a web site for the course textbook
Homework
Homework will be posted at this website. A (small) subset will be graded.
Assignment 1 Assignment 2 Assignment 3 Assignment 4 Assignment 5
Assignment 6
Assignment 7
Assignment 8 Assignment 9
Assignment 10 Assignment 11 Assignment 12 Assignment 13 (Not to be handed in)
There will be 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 September 29 and Thursday November 3.
When: Thursday September 29 (in the usual class hour)
On What: Sections 1.1 - 1.7, and 2.1
Average Grade: 58/75= 77%
Midterm 2
When: Thursday November 10 (in the usual class hour)
On What: Sections 2.2, 2.3, 3.1-3.3, 4.1-4.3
Average Grade: 57/77= 75%
Final
When: Friday December 16,
On What: Everything we did in class, i.e. Sections 1.1 - 1.7, 2.1-2.3, 3.1-3.3, 4.1-4.3, 4.5, 4.6, 5.1-5.3, 6.1-6.2
News and Information
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8/25/05: Welcome to the class!
8/29/05: Homework 1 is due on Thursday (September 1), not tomorrow
9/22/05: The first midterm is next Thursday, i.e. September 29. It will cover sections 1.1-1.7 and section 2.1. Calculators will not be needed, and hence not permitted.
9/29/05: There is no new homework due next Thursday (October 6). The next Homework set will be assigned next week and will be due on October 13.
10/24/05:
·
There is no new homework due on Thursday
(October 27). The next homework set will be due on Tuesday
November 1.
·
The second
midterm will be on Thursday November 10 (NOT
on Thursday November 3)
11/3/05: Homework 10
covers section 4.3, i.e. material included in the syllabus for Midterm 2. Please look at it before the test, but you
don’t need to hand it in until the following Tuesday.
12/14/05: The syllabus for the final
exam covers everything we did in class, i.e.:
Sections 1.1 - 1.7, 2.1-2.3, 3.1-3.3, 4.1-4.3, 4.5, 4.6, 5.1-5.3, 6.1-6.2 .
Lecture Log (i.e. what was done in class)
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