MATH 308A     Winter, 2008
 

            INSTRUCTOR: Ralph Greenberg,   Padelford C-553
                             543-7648,     greenber@math.washington.edu

            OFFICE HOURS: Monday, Wednesday, and Friday    1:00 - 2:15
                          Additional office hours will be announced from time to time
                          or can be arranged by appointment.

            TEXT: Introduction to Linear Algebra,  5th Edition
                         Johnson, Riess, and Arnold
 

            GRADING: There will be two exams during the quarter, each counting
                     25% of your grade. They will be announced at least one week in
                     advance. The final exam will cover all the topics which were
                     discussed during the quarter and will count 40%. It is scheduled for
                     Wednesday,  March 19th,  8:30 - 10:20 AM.   There will be weekly
                     homework assignments which will be partially graded and will count
                     10% of your grade.  Late homeworks will not be accepted.

            The course will cover most of chapters 1, 3 and 4 of the text.
            There are two main topics in the course. The first topic is Matrices.
            This will include the rank, the existence of inverses, determinants,
            eigenvalues and eigenvectors. The second topic is Vector Spaces,
            including a discussion of subspaces, dimension, and bases of a subspace.
            Both of these topics are interconnected in many ways. The course will
            end with a discussion of eigenvalues and eigenvectors of matrices.
 

            HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENTS:    1,    2,    3,    4,    5,    6,

            HOMEWORK SOLUTIONS:        1,    2,    3,    4,    5,    6,

            HANDOUTS AND SAMPLE EXAMS

            LINKS TO WEBPAGES ABOUT APPLICATIONS