MATH 225 P1, Introductory Matrix Theory

 

Course Syllabus

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Instructor: Jung-Jin Lee (junglee2@uiuc.edu)

Office: 341 Illini Hall

Phone: 217-333-6499

Office Hours: Mon and Wed, 10:30am ~ 11:30am, or by appointments.

 

Announcements

May 1 (Tue): The final will take place on May 5 (Sat) 1:30~4:30. Come to the (usual) classroom (142 HAB).

 

May 1 (Tue): No office hours on May 2 (Wed).

 

May 1 (Tue): Solutions to Exam 3. Average was 79.2 points.

 

Apr 22 (Sun): Exam 3 on May 1 (Tue). Exam 3 will cover sections 5.1~5.3, 6.1~6.3, and 6.5.

 

Apr 22 (Sun): HW #10 (Last homework. Due the beginning of the Exam 3 on May 1). Four problems.

                    Section 6.2: #2,4,6,*10,*14,15,26,27. Solution         Section 6.3: *4,21,24. Solution 

                    Section 6.5: *4,5,17,18,25. Solution

 

Apr 16 (Mon): HW #9 (Due the beginning of the class on Apr 24). Five starred problems.

                    Section 5.3: #2,*8,*14,*17,19,21,*22,23,27,31. Solution Section 6.1: #1,4,7,10,14,16,24,*27,28,31. Solution

 

Apr 11 (Wed): Solutions to Exam 2. Average was 71.8 points.

 

Apr 5 (Thu): HW #8 (Due the beginning of the class on Apr 17). Four starred problems.

                    Section 5.1: #*10,*18,21(skip d), 22(skip c), 23,24,*25,29. Solution Section 5.2: #4,*13,16,19. Solution

 

Mar 22 (Thu): HW #7 (Due the beginning of Exam 2 on Apr 3). Note that there are five starred problems.

                    Section 4.3: #*1,2,7,10,*14,16,19,23,24. Solution Section 4.5: #3,12,*14,*19,20,21,25,29,30. Solution

                    Section 4.6: #1,2,3,4,6,8,10,*16. solution

 

Mar 17 (Wed): Exam 2 on Apr 3 (Tue). Exam 2 will cover sections 3.1~3.3, 4.1~4.3, and 4.5~4.6

 

Mar 7 (Wed): HW #6 (Due the beginning of the class on Mar 15). Note that there are five starred problems.

                    Section 4.1: #1,2,*3,6,8~12,*16,*18. Solution  Section 4.2: #2,*3,9,16,22,*24,25(skip c,e),27. Solution

 

Feb 28 (Wed): HW #5 (Due the beginning of the class on Mar 8). Note that there are four starred problems.

                    Section 3.1: #2,4,*10,12,20,22,38. Solution   Section 3.2: #1,2,4,15~20,*22,*26,27~29,31~36,39. Solution

                    Section 3.3: #4,*6,7,8,20,22,24. Solution

 

Feb 20 (Tue): Solutions to Sections 1.5~1.7, 2.1~2.3 are given below.

 

Feb 16 (Fri): No office hours on Feb 21 (Wed) and Feb 28 (Wed). Please email me shoud you have any questions.

 

Feb 12 (Mon): HW #4 (Due the beginning of the class on Feb 20). Note that there are four starred problems.

                   Section 1.7: #12,*21,27,33,34,35,36. Solution      Section 2.1: #1,9,*17. Solution

                   Section 2.2: #2,3,6,9,14,19,*32. Solution      Section 2.3: #1,2,6,*11,15,17,19,27,28. Solution

 

Feb 9 (Fri): Exam 1 on Feb 22 (Thu). Exam 1 will cover sections 1.1~1.7 and 2.1~2.3.

 

Feb 5 (Mon): HW #3 (Due the beginning of the class on Feb 13). Note that there are five starred problems.

                   Section 1.5: #1,6,*8,11,16,*29,30,31,32,34,36. Solution      Section 1.6: #*5, 12. Solution

                   Section 1.7: #1,4,*6,7,*10. Solution

 

Feb 4 (Sun): No regular office hours tomorrow, but I will be available after 3:00 pm until 5:00 pm.

 

Jan 30 (Tue): Office hours: Mon and Wed, 10:30am ~ 11:30am, or by appointments.

 

Jan 30 (Tue): HW #2 (Due the beginning of the class on Feb 6). Note that there are four starred problems.

                   Section 1.3: #1,5,*8,*11,21,24,29. Solution     Section 1.4: #1,2,4,*13,*14,25. Solution

 

Jan 30 (Tue): The following website has a useful linear algebra toolkit. Check it out!

                   http://www.math.odu.edu/~bogacki/cgi-bin/lat.cgi

 

Jan 30 (Tue): Solutions to Sections 1.1 and 1.2 were posted below.

 

Jan 26 (Fri): Remark on the choice of free variables

 

Jan 26 (Fri): You can check your Homework / Midterms / Final scores at Illinois Compass.

                 It requires NetID and Password.

 

Jan 17 (Wed): HW #1 (Due the beginning of the class on Jan 25)

                    Section 1.1: #2,3,*13,*24,29,32. Solution      Section 1.2: #1,2,*4,9,14,*17,18,21. Solution

                    Only starred problems will be collected and graded. So this time you need to do problems

                    13 and 24 in Section 1.1 and problems 4 and 17 in Section 1.2 (4 problems in total).

                    This policy (only starred problems are graded) will apply to all the upcoming HW sets.

                    However, I strongly suggest you still do all the problems to prepare yourselves for exams.

                    Solutions will be posted later.

                    

Jan 15 (Mon): Welcome to Math 225 P1!