Math 554:
Linear Algebra

Syllabus


Textbook Linear Algebra Second Edition,

by Kenneth Hoffman and Ray Kunze ISBN # 0-13-536797-2.

Lectures Lectures: MWF 3:30-4:20 am, REC 113.

Office hours: Tuesday and Thursday 3:30 - 4:30 pm, Room 636 Math. Sci.

Grader for HW Jing Feng Lau

Office hour: 2:30 - 3:30 Wednesday in Office Math 603

e-mail: lauj@math.purdue.edu

Test 1 : Wednesday, February 24, 3:30 - 4:20, REC 113

Test 2 : Wednesday, April 14 , 3:30 - 4:20 REC 113

Final Exam : Tuesday, May 4, 8:00 - 10:00a in REC 113



[ commuting matrices in .pdf format ]



[ projections in .pdf format ]



[ Assignment 10 and remark on T-annihilators in .pdf format ]



[ Practice problems in .pdf format ]



[ Uniqueness of invariant factors in .pdf format ]



[ final exam in .pdf format ]

Assignments

Assignment 1 To be handed in Friday, January 15, 2010

page 11, exercise 7,

page 16, exercises 5, 8,

page 21, exercises 3, 4, 8,

pages 26-27, exercises 4, 10.

Assignment 2 To be handed in Friday, January 22, 2010

page 40, exercises 5, 7, 8, 9,

pages 48-49, exercises 7, 8, 9, 13,

pages 54-55, exercises 1, 3,

page 66, exercises 3, 7.

Assignment 3 To be handed in Friday, January 29, 2010

pages 73-74, exercises 1, 3, 4, 5, 12, 13,

pages 83-84, exercises 3, 4, 7, 8, 11,

pages 95-96, exercises 2, 3, 5, 6, 10, 12,

Assignment 4 to be handed in Friday, February 5, 2010

pages 105-107, exercises 1, 3, 5, 9, 12, 14, 17,

pages 111, exercise 3,

pages 115-116, exercises 1, 4, 5,

Assignment 5 to be handed in Friday, February 12, 2010

page 123, exercises 2, 3, 7, 8,

pages 126-127, exercises 1, 6,

page 134, exercise 4,

page 139, exercises 2, 3,

pages 148-149, exercises 1, 6, 12,

Assignment 6 to be handed in Friday, February l9, 2010

pages 155-156, exercises 3, 4, 7, 8, 11,

pages 162-163, exercises 3, 4, 5, 10, 11,

Assignment 7 to be handed in Friday, March 5, 2010

pages 189-190, exercises 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 15.

page 198, exercises 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11,

pages 205-206, exercises 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13.

Assignment 8 to be handed in Friday, March 12, 2010

page 208, exercises 1, 2, 3, 5,

page 213, exercises 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10,

pages 218-219, exercises 3, 4, 8.

Assignment 9 to be handed in Friday, March 26, 2010

pages 225-226, exercises 1 - 11,

pages 230-231, exercises 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8.

Assignment 10 to be handed in Friday, April 2, 2010

Exercises from Jacobson on the hand-out sheet

Assignment 11 to be handed in Friday, April 9, 2010

pages 241-244, exercises 1, 2, 3, 4, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21,

Assignment 12 to be handed in Friday, April 23, 2010

pages 250-251, exercises 8, 10, 15, 16.

page 261, exercises 1, 2, 3, 4,

page 269, exercises 1, 2, 3.

Assignment 13 not to be handed in

pages 298 - 299, exercises 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 11, 12.

pages 317-318, exercises 1, 2, 5, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14.


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